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 5975-01-444-3424
NSN 5895-01-160-6599
NSN 5930-01-540-2518
NSN 5998-01-534-9685
NSN 6240-01-171-9500
NSN 5835-01-125-6676
NSN 6320-01-498-4954
NSN 5960-00-772-9062
NSN 5950-00-419-1623
NSN 6240-01-604-9172
NSN 5925-01-348-0826
NSN 6130-01-146-4687