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 5999-01-163-4257
NSN 5915-00-317-6042
NSN 6650-00-984-5340
NSN 5950-00-581-8881
NSN 6105-00-138-5360
NSN 5935-01-451-5117
NSN 5965-00-244-4324
NSN 6110-01-272-8523
NSN 5950-00-826-1652
NSN 4140-01-599-8434
NSN 5996-00-119-5278
NSN 6685-01-512-9434