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 5945-01-318-7847
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 5935-01-425-7246
NSN 6610-01-095-1459
NSN 5895-01-323-6413
NSN 5925-01-330-2362
NSN 5835-00-678-6981
NSN 5975-01-355-9289
NSN 5920-00-554-0437
NSN 5990-00-725-5417
NSN 6150-01-368-0396
NSN 6150-00-617-1989