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 5960-01-344-2604
NSN 5835-00-193-8951
NSN 6620-01-477-3720
NSN 5935-00-364-7784
NSN 5960-01-437-3313
NSN 5985-01-519-2335
NSN 5910-00-099-4549
NSN 6320-00-115-0883
NSN 5895-01-510-2533
NSN 6135-01-631-0269
NSN 6610-00-166-7406
NSN 5910-01-276-9931