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 5975-01-310-4239
NSN 5996-00-269-2655
NSN 6110-01-224-8495
NSN 5925-00-477-2703
NSN 5945-00-406-7119
NSN 5965-00-647-3972
NSN 6105-01-436-7736
NSN 5998-01-309-1237
NSN 5905-01-587-4929
NSN 2925-00-497-7808
NSN 5965-01-385-7813
NSN 4140-01-193-4841