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 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 5975-00-018-7143
NSN 5965-00-726-0485
NSN 5915-00-309-7980
NSN 5935-01-004-9315
NSN 5975-00-172-5594
NSN 5960-01-471-8201
NSN 5835-00-373-2671
NSN 5925-01-474-2204
NSN 5910-01-629-9909
NSN 6110-01-446-9875
NSN 5935-01-169-1692