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 4140-01-466-4497
NSN 5960-01-047-4326
NSN 5985-01-556-4421
NSN 5855-01-425-6340
NSN 5960-01-628-2760
NSN 5905-01-618-3213
NSN 5998-00-227-2118
NSN 5950-00-225-9887
NSN 5996-00-460-1441
NSN 6610-01-326-0119
NSN 5945-00-801-6539
NSN 5945-01-400-1984