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 6650-01-528-5329
NSN 5915-01-349-0758
NSN 5855-01-503-5484
NSN 5965-01-584-4623
NSN 5965-01-504-6139
NSN 5990-00-565-9027
NSN 5855-01-067-7807
NSN 6650-01-421-2370
NSN 5895-01-380-6659
NSN 5925-01-120-3837
NSN 5998-00-559-4782
NSN 5998-01-615-0710