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 5905-01-537-4497
NSN 6645-01-277-5973
NSN 5950-01-127-5807
NSN 6240-01-202-5649
NSN 5999-00-203-5573
NSN 6240-00-015-0408
NSN 5930-00-528-9728
NSN 5835-00-168-9623
NSN 6685-01-421-2206
NSN 5996-00-168-2702
NSN 4140-01-585-9196
NSN 7035-01-368-4801