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 5915-01-120-2165
NSN 5996-01-578-6835
NSN 5998-01-347-2881
NSN 5985-01-349-8115
NSN 5905-00-372-5214
NSN 5910-01-605-1469
NSN 5985-01-144-4621
NSN 6645-00-470-5310
NSN 6110-01-369-8038
NSN 6620-01-146-4680
NSN 6320-00-994-0179
NSN 5905-01-029-6233