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 7035-01-069-3537
NSN 5935-01-500-2785
NSN 6110-01-650-9035
NSN 5855-01-491-0140
NSN 6145-01-329-2367
NSN 5965-01-514-4609
NSN 5925-01-370-4417
NSN 6135-00-334-4500
NSN 5960-00-188-3915
NSN 5915-01-322-8551
NSN 5965-01-504-6139
NSN 5965-01-276-1070