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 5990-00-560-7923
NSN 6650-01-149-8989
NSN 6220-01-259-4420
NSN 2925-00-730-3115
NSN 6105-01-474-1054
NSN 5985-01-435-5082
NSN 5920-00-484-5408
NSN 7035-01-633-9537
NSN 4140-00-473-5768
NSN 5999-00-035-9288
NSN 6110-01-364-9779
NSN 5975-01-268-1945