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 5895-01-268-4440
NSN 6610-00-001-5516
NSN 5895-01-272-9740
NSN 5950-01-288-3244
NSN 6220-00-180-4589
NSN 5835-01-612-4753
NSN 5910-01-471-3797
NSN 5945-01-467-9886
NSN 6135-01-370-2599
NSN 6645-00-434-8793
NSN 5996-01-202-8605
NSN 6320-01-301-4699