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 5998-01-626-9893
NSN 5895-01-125-2219
NSN 5975-00-580-0434
NSN 5920-01-487-3700
NSN 5855-01-058-5576
NSN 5935-01-108-2628
NSN 6130-01-535-0952
NSN 5895-00-495-3278
NSN 5945-00-826-3925
NSN 7035-01-607-7716
NSN 6220-00-190-6410
NSN 6240-00-116-3629