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 5950-00-081-9226
NSN 5945-01-063-5992
NSN 6150-01-275-6328
NSN 5835-00-164-7309
NSN 5996-01-611-7204
NSN 5985-01-484-0557
NSN 6610-00-149-1534
NSN 6145-00-770-1618
NSN 5998-00-121-6387
NSN 5910-01-243-9014
NSN 6610-00-929-4754
NSN 4140-01-629-9225