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 6220-01-074-7718
NSN 5855-01-067-8841
NSN 2925-01-513-2073
NSN 6130-01-146-8716
NSN 5895-01-227-2651
NSN 6105-01-385-2586
NSN 5965-00-166-3486
NSN 6240-01-294-0913
NSN 6145-01-164-4716
NSN 5975-01-335-9257
NSN 6610-01-252-1096
NSN 5895-01-472-2046