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 6130-01-634-0603
NSN 5945-00-596-2665
NSN 5835-00-588-2196
NSN 5975-01-115-8247
NSN 5835-01-053-0878
NSN 5855-01-348-4623
NSN 7035-01-615-4596
NSN 5965-00-512-1298
NSN 6620-01-339-1238
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 5925-01-365-5442
NSN 5930-00-378-7005