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 5925-01-189-9254
NSN 5990-00-617-1422
NSN 6620-01-508-1996
NSN 5996-01-410-6984
NSN 5950-00-451-4224
NSN 6220-00-737-5629
NSN 5935-01-510-5765
NSN 6240-01-613-2503
NSN 5835-01-616-6131
NSN 5905-01-340-4615
NSN 6320-01-204-2922
NSN 5990-01-395-4194