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 5925-01-057-7559
NSN 5990-01-626-3840
NSN 5990-01-370-7912
NSN 5985-00-351-9456
NSN 5925-00-840-5393
NSN 5835-00-059-5854
NSN 5960-01-210-8779
NSN 4140-00-751-1694
NSN 6220-00-166-9795
NSN 6320-00-790-4844
NSN 5985-01-576-3638
NSN 5960-01-383-6262