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 5996-01-138-6182
NSN 5915-01-025-1362
NSN 5965-00-825-6734
NSN 2925-01-374-2402
NSN 5999-01-295-6672
NSN 6645-01-445-5235
NSN 5915-01-521-4073
NSN 6135-01-651-3210
NSN 5935-01-434-2166
NSN 5835-00-987-9341
NSN 6220-01-465-9283
NSN 5985-01-070-8328