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 5835-01-398-3859
NSN 5975-01-120-8741
NSN 6645-00-415-6032
NSN 6135-01-326-2536
NSN 5920-00-930-4063
NSN 5985-00-277-7371
NSN 6685-00-622-5417
NSN 5985-01-366-9846
NSN 6150-00-866-2832
NSN 5985-01-407-2494
NSN 5975-00-738-6055
NSN 6110-01-041-3963