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 5855-00-174-3482
NSN 6320-01-459-6992
NSN 6105-00-224-2008
NSN 6240-01-181-4474
NSN 5835-01-641-0073
NSN 5990-01-113-0303
NSN 5985-00-299-0287
NSN 6130-01-125-7492
NSN 5985-01-443-0997
NSN 6610-00-015-9383
NSN 5935-00-348-6621
NSN 6220-01-382-0920