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 5930-01-365-9038
NSN 5950-00-886-1602
NSN 5855-01-444-4228
NSN 6150-01-099-0614
NSN 6240-01-394-5320
NSN 5996-01-465-2305
NSN 6145-01-151-2823
NSN 6110-00-260-0130
NSN 5950-00-740-3555
NSN 6650-00-466-1697
NSN 6145-01-495-0506
NSN 5935-01-617-0495