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 5985-01-399-1094
NSN 5996-00-556-2479
NSN 5835-01-135-2601
NSN 6685-01-194-3931
NSN 5965-00-064-8209
NSN 6145-01-605-0948
NSN 5925-01-600-7960
NSN 6130-01-285-4486
NSN 6145-00-905-7255
NSN 5990-01-501-5409
NSN 2925-01-208-0711
NSN 6150-01-519-8294