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 2925-01-604-8984
NSN 6130-00-037-9625
NSN 5895-01-204-7658
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 5998-01-382-9664
NSN 5960-00-607-0395
NSN 5996-01-483-7110
NSN 5835-01-589-4735
NSN 6130-01-600-3470
NSN 4140-01-321-2558
NSN 6150-01-150-6157
NSN 5905-01-192-3112