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 5915-01-442-3686
NSN 5950-01-205-1883
NSN 5985-01-534-5581
NSN 5905-00-594-4417
NSN 5996-01-425-1182
NSN 6610-01-460-1385
NSN 5920-01-538-9483
NSN 5925-01-418-5797
NSN 5920-01-641-6324
NSN 4140-01-350-0839
NSN 5925-01-103-3024
NSN 5855-01-096-9294