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 5950-01-286-1575
NSN 7035-01-029-7221
NSN 6240-00-275-1950
NSN 5855-01-288-2271
NSN 6110-00-891-4377
NSN 6650-01-142-1688
NSN 5910-00-995-1819
NSN 5915-00-201-7090
NSN 5975-01-168-7643
NSN 7035-01-468-6532
NSN 5835-00-898-0201
NSN 6620-01-460-2788