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 5996-01-248-0947
NSN 5855-01-569-8696
NSN 4140-00-780-6443
NSN 5855-01-100-3272
NSN 6135-00-676-5807
NSN 5975-00-320-8962
NSN 5998-01-630-9623
NSN 5910-00-931-2795
NSN 6240-01-476-4658
NSN 5999-01-213-9063
NSN 5935-00-959-0071
NSN 6220-00-338-1086