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 5945-00-478-2088
NSN 5905-01-515-3209
NSN 5975-01-378-6917
NSN 7035-01-613-9794
NSN 5945-01-097-2078
NSN 5950-00-832-8773
NSN 6130-00-476-7763
NSN 6220-00-125-3805
NSN 5965-01-540-3027
NSN 6135-01-205-5965
NSN 5975-00-395-1722
NSN 6110-00-982-2838