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 5855-01-029-8733
NSN 5915-01-512-3400
NSN 5835-01-244-8532
NSN 7035-01-036-0236
NSN 5985-00-661-1457
NSN 5835-00-185-4919
NSN 5960-01-503-0362
NSN 6150-00-774-6782
NSN 6320-00-394-8458
NSN 5930-00-905-6999
NSN 6320-01-129-9656
NSN 5945-00-293-8333