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 5945-00-237-9881
NSN 6105-01-179-3256
NSN 5905-01-469-5478
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 5975-01-304-3887
NSN 2925-00-816-8765
NSN 6220-01-135-3841
NSN 6620-01-138-8250
NSN 5895-01-390-5764
NSN 5945-01-599-2726
NSN 5930-00-060-7633
NSN 6610-01-184-3016