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 6135-01-222-0703
NSN 5910-00-334-8756
NSN 6620-01-420-8666
NSN 5990-01-568-5565
NSN 5935-01-330-2376
NSN 5910-00-081-9173
NSN 5999-01-054-8258
NSN 5965-01-168-8180
NSN 6610-00-034-3709
NSN 5998-01-430-7248
NSN 5915-00-279-2973
NSN 6145-01-426-8976