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 5975-01-225-7075
NSN 4140-00-190-0162
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 5945-01-209-9891
NSN 5999-01-251-8425
NSN 6610-00-186-9180
NSN 5990-01-581-5103
NSN 4140-00-399-2416
NSN 5999-00-228-8582
NSN 5895-01-468-0242
NSN 5930-01-561-5591
NSN 5985-01-491-8019