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 5895-01-244-5588
NSN 6135-01-616-0696
NSN 5895-01-152-1178
NSN 5945-01-584-4176
NSN 5998-01-279-7503
NSN 4140-00-940-8297
NSN 5999-01-643-9447
NSN 6220-00-754-3452
NSN 6145-00-871-9112
NSN 5999-01-212-9671
NSN 5960-01-449-3349
NSN 6610-01-330-7839