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 5855-00-198-3197
NSN 6650-01-040-9637
NSN 5985-01-195-7606
NSN 5996-00-707-6228
NSN 5855-01-361-9755
NSN 5925-00-654-1687
NSN 2925-01-554-5246
NSN 6610-00-008-0217
NSN 5855-01-286-9928
NSN 4140-00-488-6303
NSN 5960-01-022-1718
NSN 6620-00-335-9462