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 6105-00-325-9356
NSN 5915-01-106-4544
NSN 2925-00-215-4954
NSN 6645-01-557-8134
NSN 5990-01-157-0441
NSN 6650-01-382-8569
NSN 5975-00-773-3647
NSN 5930-01-267-2826
NSN 5920-01-487-4195
NSN 5895-01-127-5855
NSN 5920-01-442-4937
NSN 5975-00-001-9329