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 5998-01-253-5295
NSN 5930-00-661-2280
NSN 5925-01-395-7600
NSN 6145-01-067-7110
NSN 6105-01-013-9252
NSN 5998-00-525-2654
NSN 6135-00-168-3876
NSN 6105-01-468-5605
NSN 6685-01-097-2171
NSN 5835-00-397-7697
NSN 5935-01-345-6360
NSN 6135-01-113-1507