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 5975-01-630-8592
NSN 6150-01-437-1588
NSN 5920-01-109-3117
NSN 5945-00-035-4439
NSN 5990-01-463-2279
NSN 5975-01-286-5850
NSN 6610-01-353-4883
NSN 6150-01-461-7191
NSN 5895-01-583-5744
NSN 5960-01-449-1310
NSN 6320-01-492-1976
NSN 5895-00-108-8474