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 5985-01-067-7297
NSN 6145-00-138-0480
NSN 6650-01-365-4286
NSN 6145-01-567-7749
NSN 5855-01-068-3683
NSN 6685-01-399-7944
NSN 5935-00-340-2809
NSN 6110-00-412-4624
NSN 5905-01-406-2860
NSN 5998-01-455-8748
NSN 5930-01-168-6144
NSN 6610-00-527-8892