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 5999-01-074-8881
NSN 6220-01-555-7860
NSN 6220-01-025-6140
NSN 7035-01-615-6304
NSN 5999-01-121-8364
NSN 5975-01-442-6471
NSN 6610-00-049-6497
NSN 6620-00-469-4571
NSN 2925-01-590-8691
NSN 6110-00-941-5401
NSN 5910-00-618-0196
NSN 6320-00-382-7825