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 5935-01-125-5098
NSN 6610-01-555-8364
NSN 5960-01-135-0463
NSN 6685-00-828-8881
NSN 5835-00-198-4936
NSN 6645-01-399-0661
NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 6145-00-340-6698
NSN 5930-00-799-1494
NSN 2925-01-587-3956
NSN 6240-01-399-0343
NSN 6105-01-138-3102