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 5915-00-987-4634
NSN 6620-01-461-3550
NSN 6220-00-004-5356
NSN 5965-01-460-9743
NSN 7035-00-834-2090
NSN 6320-01-036-2598
NSN 5895-01-227-2157
NSN 5975-01-205-0548
NSN 5925-01-388-2003
NSN 5960-01-398-4883
NSN 6220-00-734-0276
NSN 6220-01-051-6993