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 2925-01-446-6976
NSN 5990-01-240-1100
NSN 5998-01-228-7633
NSN 5945-01-534-5781
NSN 5855-00-479-9819
NSN 5925-00-201-8254
NSN 5925-01-578-8889
NSN 5985-00-332-8758
NSN 5905-01-050-7983
NSN 5855-01-375-6690
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 6685-00-047-4843