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 5895-01-462-0027
NSN 5920-00-556-7817
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 5985-01-247-5397
NSN 6620-00-278-7313
NSN 5985-01-279-0066
NSN 2925-00-480-1531
NSN 6685-00-938-5649
NSN 6145-00-078-9917
NSN 6150-01-423-8815
NSN 5925-01-604-8985
NSN 5985-01-196-6144