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 5905-01-448-3405
NSN 6110-01-431-2271
NSN 6220-00-649-3241
NSN 5905-00-496-7582
NSN 5990-00-660-8885
NSN 6105-01-343-9423
NSN 5925-00-431-3256
NSN 5935-00-182-8746
NSN 6645-00-754-4108
NSN 5960-00-581-5821
NSN 6240-01-041-4406
NSN 6685-00-270-8070