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 7035-01-364-0286
NSN 5998-01-445-5017
NSN 5930-01-436-5052
NSN 5945-01-035-5806
NSN 2925-00-293-7213
NSN 6650-01-326-6380
NSN 5930-01-123-6693
NSN 5935-01-032-1174
NSN 5975-01-230-4655
NSN 6145-01-090-5648
NSN 6145-01-172-5630
NSN 5935-00-105-9055