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 5985-01-158-8447
NSN 4140-01-032-3705
NSN 2925-01-500-0730
NSN 5990-01-076-6858
NSN 6320-01-330-8054
NSN 5895-00-842-2139
NSN 6610-01-466-9058
NSN 5950-01-280-0560
NSN 6620-01-360-1571
NSN 5855-01-023-3727
NSN 7035-01-510-2777
NSN 5910-01-384-4899