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 5960-01-137-2329
NSN 7035-00-126-1899
NSN 5855-00-004-0904
NSN 5910-01-085-6434
NSN 6110-01-151-4849
NSN 5920-01-149-6953
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 5895-01-502-6988
NSN 6240-01-322-5521
NSN 5975-01-411-7724
NSN 5960-01-316-4382
NSN 5910-01-432-9321