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 5855-01-165-6361
NSN 6650-01-646-0139
NSN 5905-01-184-7264
NSN 5998-01-079-8888
NSN 5855-01-262-1766
NSN 5975-01-123-2147
NSN 6130-01-229-7675
NSN 5960-00-536-1535
NSN 5930-01-253-3499
NSN 5930-01-391-9730
NSN 6320-00-098-2858
NSN 5935-01-224-8365