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 5990-01-176-2724
NSN 2925-01-074-9102
NSN 5910-01-269-4049
NSN 6145-01-172-5630
NSN 5835-01-441-4746
NSN 5930-01-398-9576
NSN 5965-01-385-7813
NSN 6110-00-813-8632
NSN 5935-01-242-8197
NSN 6145-01-459-1351
NSN 6150-00-243-9531
NSN 5835-00-313-7197