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 5935-01-335-5258
NSN 6130-00-754-2950
NSN 5950-01-561-9505
NSN 5905-00-106-9359
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 5975-01-578-6592
NSN 5925-00-925-3689
NSN 5950-01-487-6005
NSN 6220-01-212-4088
NSN 5950-01-373-2672
NSN 6105-01-149-4808
NSN 6610-01-006-2305