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 5965-01-458-8669
NSN 5998-01-363-5046
NSN 6320-01-462-2295
NSN 5935-01-265-1111
NSN 5950-01-188-0061
NSN 6610-01-513-8209
NSN 6135-00-452-2266
NSN 5960-01-500-6615
NSN 5996-01-202-8127
NSN 5920-01-600-3396
NSN 5996-01-521-2458
NSN 7035-00-922-5700