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 6105-01-507-9255
NSN 5985-01-143-3164
NSN 6130-00-244-1406
NSN 5910-01-375-3437
NSN 5975-00-099-9312
NSN 5920-01-142-7554
NSN 5965-01-641-5810
NSN 6110-01-226-8949
NSN 5910-01-310-9438
NSN 6150-00-809-6569
NSN 5975-01-458-4909
NSN 5965-01-275-5472