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 5965-01-580-8049
NSN 6130-01-144-1436
NSN 5990-00-466-2952
NSN 6685-01-580-4343
NSN 7035-01-065-8703
NSN 5930-01-296-4785
NSN 6240-01-329-8095
NSN 6150-00-489-5982
NSN 6645-00-583-0066
NSN 6645-01-231-4764
NSN 5999-01-461-2808
NSN 4140-01-232-0306