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 5925-01-451-3584
NSN 5945-01-131-2283
NSN 6645-01-461-9250
NSN 5960-00-211-2105
NSN 6150-01-148-8142
NSN 5985-01-212-2950
NSN 4140-01-623-0064
NSN 5950-00-308-0948
NSN 6110-00-614-8573
NSN 6220-01-448-3471
NSN 6130-01-055-6846
NSN 6150-00-561-0403