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 5925-01-593-4725
NSN 6240-00-928-7181
NSN 6105-01-553-1001
NSN 5950-00-756-7134
NSN 7035-01-287-9817
NSN 5996-00-811-8120
NSN 5965-00-900-8102
NSN 5910-01-442-4216
NSN 6150-01-066-6104
NSN 6145-01-442-7395
NSN 6620-00-602-2072
NSN 5985-01-187-5815