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 5835-01-442-6079
NSN 5950-01-021-8394
NSN 5925-01-572-8063
NSN 6620-01-566-3456
NSN 5950-01-212-5254
NSN 4140-00-230-4252
NSN 6110-00-105-6255
NSN 5999-01-621-6651
NSN 6220-01-268-1318
NSN 6220-01-570-4257
NSN 6150-00-593-5199
NSN 5965-01-604-1632