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 5910-01-545-0280
NSN 5930-00-214-2977
NSN 6135-00-676-5807
NSN 4140-01-446-6007
NSN 5905-01-416-0402
NSN 6150-01-285-6468
NSN 5990-01-546-1649
NSN 5945-00-195-4679
NSN 5985-00-530-4835
NSN 6610-01-505-3495
NSN 6645-01-430-2420
NSN 5990-01-210-9788