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 5985-01-599-8027
NSN 4140-01-614-4139
NSN 5835-01-360-1058
NSN 5910-01-323-7951
NSN 6110-01-415-3343
NSN 5975-01-049-8818
NSN 2925-01-554-5246
NSN 5895-01-418-6368
NSN 5835-01-359-2575
NSN 5895-01-437-4918
NSN 6145-01-234-0650
NSN 6610-01-230-9971