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 5855-01-616-8724
NSN 6130-00-649-8287
NSN 6620-01-564-3041
NSN 5985-00-130-2604
NSN 5965-00-009-8679
NSN 5925-01-394-4953
NSN 5895-01-246-9079
NSN 5950-01-542-7972
NSN 2925-00-400-5634
NSN 5915-01-313-6589
NSN 6110-00-824-2162
NSN 7035-01-479-5268