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 5925-00-630-8178
NSN 6610-01-440-0604
NSN 5930-01-344-9624
NSN 6240-01-069-2688
NSN 5996-01-579-0202
NSN 5835-00-217-2147
NSN 6620-00-428-9866
NSN 5985-01-271-4885
NSN 5950-00-201-7921
NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 5835-00-092-1136
NSN 6610-01-398-8815