An electromechanical item which accepts and systematically retains digital input data in such a manner as to facilitate the rapid recovery of stored information. The item may or may not consist of disk(s) some of which are removable, hard, removable disk packs, fixed disks, or removable flexible, each surface coated with a material susceptible to spot magnetization, integral writing, a drive motor and its mechanical linkage, and data translating heads for impressing on or removing from the disk surface data in digital form. the item is a component of an electronic computer. see also, magnetic drum, data storage; core memory unit.
Classification: Other storage units, nesoi
NSN 5910-01-511-5582
NSN 5990-01-170-0077
NSN 5945-00-152-4862
NSN 6320-01-411-6610
NSN 5999-01-573-8371
NSN 6650-01-614-0947
NSN 5930-01-429-4826
NSN 5998-00-840-5463
NSN 5920-00-661-0840
NSN 6645-01-409-2003
NSN 5945-01-138-6080
NSN 6620-00-565-9793