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 5960-01-254-3541
NSN 6320-01-378-6191
NSN 5960-00-070-1529
NSN 4140-01-150-4895
NSN 5975-01-487-6947
NSN 5945-01-573-3763
NSN 7035-01-546-0059
NSN 6610-01-102-2256
NSN 5965-01-551-1900
NSN 7035-01-256-9598
NSN 6110-00-915-3561
NSN 5855-01-644-5841