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 5950-01-456-1352
NSN 5895-01-093-9565
NSN 6220-01-461-8811
NSN 5990-01-174-4469
NSN 2925-01-161-7440
NSN 2925-00-233-5644
NSN 6685-01-147-5617
NSN 6685-01-394-4141
NSN 6240-01-350-6809
NSN 5945-00-068-2171
NSN 6105-01-155-2429
NSN 6150-00-041-5038