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 5975-01-038-0596
NSN 6130-01-106-8942
NSN 6220-01-400-0637
NSN 5965-01-078-6776
NSN 5905-00-287-7791
NSN 5950-01-188-1804
NSN 5945-01-089-8771
NSN 5990-00-277-3763
NSN 6135-01-447-5082
NSN 4140-01-657-8419
NSN 5965-00-777-7037
NSN 5905-01-019-9530