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 4140-00-724-2277
NSN 5998-01-559-8441
NSN 7035-01-287-9817
NSN 5905-01-509-7518
NSN 5925-01-306-2719
NSN 7035-01-350-4247
NSN 2925-00-734-0516
NSN 5975-01-213-4830
NSN 6105-01-407-2618
NSN 5965-01-462-6801
NSN 7035-01-202-8699
NSN 6220-00-941-8758