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 5895-00-602-2929
NSN 6650-01-646-9740
NSN 5975-00-314-1667
NSN 5910-01-570-1808
NSN 7035-01-071-5214
NSN 4140-01-351-0279
NSN 2925-01-577-0004
NSN 6130-00-110-6970
NSN 5965-01-645-0845
NSN 4140-01-393-2350
NSN 6620-00-470-3219
NSN 6610-00-042-8461