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 5950-01-448-9779
NSN 5855-00-433-2377
NSN 5930-00-067-8622
NSN 6135-01-464-2075
NSN 7035-00-679-9027
NSN 6320-00-322-3460
NSN 5905-01-634-0595
NSN 2925-00-996-2167
NSN 2925-01-594-5385
NSN 6650-01-449-2334
NSN 5935-01-435-6522
NSN 6150-01-146-3462