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 5920-01-347-5852
NSN 5945-00-645-2309
NSN 6130-01-085-3085
NSN 6110-00-594-7640
NSN 6650-01-202-9143
NSN 5990-01-463-2279
NSN 5910-01-403-2812
NSN 6150-01-215-9339
NSN 6240-01-253-0687
NSN 5855-00-174-3482
NSN 6220-01-364-6950
NSN 6130-00-054-5080