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 5998-01-519-2626
NSN 6650-00-751-9958
NSN 4140-01-372-3976
NSN 6240-00-617-9599
NSN 5905-00-886-8136
NSN 6105-01-592-9161
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 6150-01-308-5317
NSN 5920-01-610-7598
NSN 5915-00-818-9279
NSN 5990-01-364-0813
NSN 5935-00-061-1962