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 5999-00-003-4579
NSN 5920-01-437-6543
NSN 5915-01-146-5543
NSN 5950-00-765-7024
NSN 5960-01-523-9098
NSN 5915-01-141-6726
NSN 6105-01-627-6255
NSN 5925-00-608-0973
NSN 6240-00-724-6867
NSN 5960-01-311-2170
NSN 5910-01-422-4645
NSN 5905-00-966-9069