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 5990-01-374-3877
NSN 5920-01-113-9040
NSN 2925-01-494-3259
NSN 6645-01-568-7517
NSN 6105-01-462-1657
NSN 6645-00-155-2398
NSN 6150-00-969-6893
NSN 6220-01-069-5506
NSN 6145-01-564-9204
NSN 7035-00-834-2090
NSN 6150-01-524-6634
NSN 5990-01-565-2226