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 5998-01-152-1985
NSN 6145-01-386-6286
NSN 4140-01-538-7053
NSN 5998-00-932-5322
NSN 6130-01-437-9184
NSN 5998-01-467-1718
NSN 5835-01-549-2911
NSN 5999-00-155-3088
NSN 5905-00-262-0942
NSN 5990-00-997-5237
NSN 6610-00-884-2824
NSN 5945-01-172-7573