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 5855-01-125-4768
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 5925-00-197-4329
NSN 6685-00-152-9337
NSN 5905-00-149-9248
NSN 5965-00-267-4173
NSN 5915-01-032-7843
NSN 7035-01-077-6041
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 6145-01-508-4668
NSN 4140-01-146-1035
NSN 5935-00-410-2013