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 5960-00-617-9312
NSN 6110-01-480-6908
NSN 5965-01-487-4479
NSN 5895-01-055-0393
NSN 2925-01-250-2731
NSN 6645-01-324-5621
NSN 4140-01-568-2815
NSN 6645-00-179-8676
NSN 5965-00-275-0491
NSN 5999-01-007-8208
NSN 5985-00-880-5788
NSN 6150-01-148-8739