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 5985-01-307-8449
NSN 5910-00-655-0787
NSN 5965-01-226-9741
NSN 5925-01-533-6306
NSN 7035-00-421-8710
NSN 6150-01-390-2932
NSN 6150-01-313-3732
NSN 5910-01-067-8361
NSN 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 5965-01-180-7070
NSN 2925-01-545-2717
NSN 5935-00-953-0117