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 5905-01-504-4797
NSN 6150-00-533-3922
NSN 5996-01-264-8374
NSN 5835-01-436-6549
NSN 7035-01-472-5762
NSN 6645-01-148-9063
NSN 6320-00-186-6452
NSN 5895-00-292-2872
NSN 5985-01-036-5247
NSN 5999-01-045-4155
NSN 5965-01-513-7758
NSN 6130-01-212-8069