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 5835-00-257-2852
NSN 6110-01-458-4372
NSN 6135-00-078-9931
NSN 5950-01-447-3817
NSN 5925-01-424-6744
NSN 5910-01-114-5672
NSN 6685-00-176-5883
NSN 6135-00-444-1402
NSN 5960-01-365-2320
NSN 5855-01-157-7186
NSN 5965-01-076-8026
NSN 5905-01-330-9188