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 5965-01-462-2291
NSN 5960-00-175-7620
NSN 5915-01-371-4194
NSN 5920-01-535-7477
NSN 5935-01-029-4750
NSN 6110-01-004-9870
NSN 5998-01-138-3270
NSN 6685-00-253-9997
NSN 5935-00-807-2175
NSN 5920-01-423-8410
NSN 5996-00-238-5654
NSN 6610-01-305-4473