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 5996-01-495-4331
NSN 5925-01-029-3483
NSN 6620-01-397-1085
NSN 5920-00-043-5138
NSN 5925-00-867-9928
NSN 5965-00-948-2809
NSN 6130-01-493-9654
NSN 6610-01-273-2075
NSN 6150-01-246-3339
NSN 5925-01-425-2679
NSN 6650-00-195-7519
NSN 5930-01-437-7367