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 5855-00-281-3843
NSN 5915-01-067-2301
NSN 2925-01-532-8445
NSN 5895-00-404-9636
NSN 5920-01-351-5536
NSN 5855-01-133-3587
NSN 5910-00-993-0639
NSN 5915-01-059-3639
NSN 6610-00-149-1534
NSN 6685-00-033-7933
NSN 6220-01-423-2814
NSN 2925-00-196-9003