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 5965-01-381-2527
NSN 6110-01-162-6267
NSN 5935-01-048-4318
NSN 6685-01-190-0871
NSN 5950-00-552-5077
NSN 6110-01-397-8803
NSN 4140-01-194-8291
NSN 6685-01-168-0668
NSN 6145-00-005-1018
NSN 5960-01-467-7516
NSN 6685-01-634-0611
NSN 6220-01-516-9470