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 5985-01-303-2598
NSN 6645-01-356-1179
NSN 6145-01-003-0455
NSN 5835-01-426-6573
NSN 4140-00-586-7604
NSN 6620-00-266-2763
NSN 6320-01-278-9832
NSN 5998-00-529-2551
NSN 5985-00-661-2263
NSN 5920-01-303-6841
NSN 5915-01-433-2128
NSN 5905-01-120-8858