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 2925-01-645-2948
NSN 5996-01-112-2360
NSN 6320-00-242-3300
NSN 6150-01-011-4870
NSN 5945-00-968-1866
NSN 6685-01-347-4648
NSN 6145-01-279-0551
NSN 5910-01-444-1429
NSN 5975-00-785-6854
NSN 6650-01-507-9513
NSN 5998-01-356-9187
NSN 5960-00-843-8063