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 6685-01-467-0378
NSN 6240-00-011-5273
NSN 6110-00-156-6305
NSN 5990-00-822-9269
NSN 6620-00-280-2874
NSN 6220-01-591-7348
NSN 5985-01-222-1532
NSN 5905-00-175-9191
NSN 5985-01-476-8182
NSN 6685-01-090-3280
NSN 7035-00-295-0451
NSN 5996-01-191-8758