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 5975-01-373-5014
NSN 6240-01-134-2419
NSN 5835-00-833-7080
NSN 6135-00-235-1938
NSN 2925-01-454-2046
NSN 5960-00-898-8028
NSN 6320-01-170-4068
NSN 6105-01-003-9162
NSN 4140-01-160-7666
NSN 5960-01-468-5785
NSN 6320-01-119-3935
NSN 5999-01-113-5820