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 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 5855-01-555-3354
NSN 6150-01-157-8726
NSN 5930-01-322-8220
NSN 6145-00-927-3187
NSN 5945-01-366-6760
NSN 5965-00-045-3440
NSN 6620-01-048-4145
NSN 5895-01-473-3314
NSN 5835-00-933-9609
NSN 7035-01-223-0104
NSN 5999-01-210-3158