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 6685-01-181-4527
NSN 5935-01-011-0008
NSN 5960-00-902-0587
NSN 5925-01-188-7630
NSN 6105-01-089-9143
NSN 5855-01-293-1592
NSN 6685-01-251-2641
NSN 5835-00-833-7080
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 5975-00-083-1433
NSN 5965-01-036-1325
NSN 6610-01-374-6505