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 5925-01-026-0891
NSN 5925-00-068-8880
NSN 5935-01-215-2123
NSN 5910-00-769-5448
NSN 6645-01-172-4477
NSN 6105-01-037-3893
NSN 5950-00-759-0858
NSN 6220-00-516-9270
NSN 7035-00-500-7839
NSN 6130-01-030-0064
NSN 6610-00-369-6661
NSN 5960-01-462-7704