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 5855-01-432-4401
NSN 5925-01-132-9120
NSN 6240-00-300-2736
NSN 5925-01-067-0882
NSN 6650-01-179-9349
NSN 6685-00-296-0392
NSN 6320-00-779-5923
NSN 5990-01-147-5225
NSN 6220-01-527-8105
NSN 2925-01-587-3956
NSN 4140-00-699-0904
NSN 6150-01-269-4061