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 6145-01-043-8139
NSN 5945-00-383-5356
NSN 6135-01-454-7041
NSN 5965-01-382-9081
NSN 5920-00-868-7651
NSN 5945-00-111-2050
NSN 4140-00-818-5734
NSN 7035-01-104-5446
NSN 7035-01-095-5454
NSN 5855-01-109-6433
NSN 6320-00-823-2015
NSN 5965-01-377-3587