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 5965-01-033-9352
NSN 6650-01-317-7975
NSN 6320-01-504-3948
NSN 5905-01-346-4053
NSN 5895-00-346-4800
NSN 5945-00-255-4033
NSN 6610-00-261-8159
NSN 6240-00-589-4515
NSN 5990-01-512-9129
NSN 6220-01-207-0523
NSN 6130-01-077-9474
NSN 5950-00-385-8906