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 5945-01-170-0553
NSN 5905-01-129-2421
NSN 5835-01-521-0298
NSN 5895-01-013-9320
NSN 5935-01-251-7034
NSN 6320-01-240-4637
NSN 5999-01-642-0960
NSN 6685-00-811-3961
NSN 6105-01-180-3816
NSN 5925-01-161-5846
NSN 6130-00-753-2807
NSN 2925-01-547-4565