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 5835-00-834-1286
NSN 5985-01-092-0337
NSN 6130-00-214-8583
NSN 5999-00-866-6562
NSN 5905-00-294-9445
NSN 2925-01-570-8065
NSN 5996-01-100-2952
NSN 7035-01-466-1577
NSN 6240-00-466-0703
NSN 5960-00-816-8695
NSN 5945-01-418-6356
NSN 5975-01-430-9299