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 5905-00-728-1659
NSN 5998-01-417-8303
NSN 6150-01-127-3334
NSN 5905-00-360-1953
NSN 2925-01-190-9352
NSN 6610-01-250-2811
NSN 5965-01-381-2998
NSN 5990-01-531-0487
NSN 5905-00-057-5674
NSN 5996-01-541-4974
NSN 6685-01-572-2684
NSN 5950-01-157-9914