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 6135-01-423-3915
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 5990-00-206-3753
NSN 5935-00-639-1382
NSN 2925-00-233-5644
NSN 5960-01-202-6610
NSN 6240-00-243-8336
NSN 6320-01-532-7491
NSN 5965-00-347-0231
NSN 6645-01-226-9825
NSN 6685-01-433-2050
NSN 6240-01-257-9004