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 5895-01-065-1659
NSN 5910-00-596-3179
NSN 6685-01-365-5682
NSN 6145-00-909-0614
NSN 5910-01-496-4996
NSN 5975-01-348-1155
NSN 6650-01-598-4548
NSN 5935-00-324-3005
NSN 6135-00-951-3426
NSN 4140-00-435-5607
NSN 6650-01-415-3332
NSN 6685-01-474-4460