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 6685-01-244-3226
NSN 5960-01-281-5437
NSN 6650-00-287-5868
NSN 4140-01-519-9343
NSN 5985-01-475-9050
NSN 5990-01-039-6284
NSN 5950-01-492-3770
NSN 2925-01-110-1467
NSN 5895-01-062-0002
NSN 4140-00-853-3889
NSN 5930-01-481-2208
NSN 5945-01-340-8784