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 5996-01-443-5617
NSN 6610-01-144-8401
NSN 5930-01-248-2235
NSN 6240-00-594-7138
NSN 5935-01-317-8654
NSN 5998-00-244-5784
NSN 2925-01-157-9204
NSN 5895-00-862-5564
NSN 5996-01-429-0390
NSN 5920-01-141-6885
NSN 6650-01-542-7154
NSN 6685-01-634-0611