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 5975-01-355-5453
NSN 5999-01-283-2598
NSN 6685-01-464-8406
NSN 5985-01-573-1783
NSN 6620-00-411-4983
NSN 6110-01-246-8202
NSN 6240-01-381-5541
NSN 6685-01-281-8698
NSN 5998-01-363-7911
NSN 5996-01-040-2606
NSN 6220-01-322-8450
NSN 5905-01-609-6058