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 5975-01-212-2761
NSN 5990-01-559-0578
NSN 6105-01-032-5168
NSN 6130-01-571-8628
NSN 6220-01-572-2681
NSN 6645-01-244-4881
NSN 5835-00-554-0399
NSN 5950-01-255-5457
NSN 7035-01-145-5059
NSN 5920-01-386-5798
NSN 5935-00-483-4203
NSN 5998-01-630-3034