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 5945-01-196-4656
NSN 6685-00-273-7017
NSN 5965-01-228-7421
NSN 6610-01-168-7943
NSN 6145-01-225-5353
NSN 5990-01-148-5326
NSN 6240-01-457-7978
NSN 6110-00-063-6882
NSN 6150-00-421-5445
NSN 5975-01-475-2537
NSN 2925-01-157-9204
NSN 5965-01-193-5221