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 7035-01-243-2730
NSN 7035-01-495-1414
NSN 6610-01-248-4339
NSN 5985-00-188-7081
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 5999-00-553-0494
NSN 5925-00-943-4489
NSN 5996-01-542-9499
NSN 5930-01-515-1413
NSN 5920-01-559-2658
NSN 5965-01-355-7164
NSN 5960-01-446-1266