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 2925-01-180-7793
NSN 5835-01-116-2369
NSN 5950-01-044-3146
NSN 6130-01-113-7566
NSN 6620-00-332-1627
NSN 5835-00-289-9080
NSN 5960-00-552-9500
NSN 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 5930-01-215-6769
NSN 5930-01-259-5685
NSN 5855-00-228-8446
NSN 5950-01-634-0677