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 5985-01-364-4457
NSN 6135-00-307-6998
NSN 5905-01-322-7983
NSN 6320-01-429-9871
NSN 5945-01-569-4852
NSN 6645-00-417-1998
NSN 6135-01-265-1384
NSN 5855-00-167-7893
NSN 6105-01-147-5586
NSN 5990-01-485-0260
NSN 5996-01-570-4583
NSN 7035-01-588-5092