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 5975-00-661-1832
NSN 6220-01-547-6448
NSN 5905-00-222-5621
NSN 5965-01-500-5037
NSN 5960-01-281-1326
NSN 6650-01-263-5412
NSN 6240-01-142-2963
NSN 5960-00-895-0542
NSN 5975-01-296-0644
NSN 5835-01-616-6131
NSN 6220-00-970-3797
NSN 2925-00-589-7640