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 5925-00-529-0441
NSN 6645-01-334-0782
NSN 6650-01-258-5871
NSN 5855-00-149-0766
NSN 5999-01-118-6871
NSN 5895-01-269-3037
NSN 6650-01-046-3718
NSN 5935-00-582-1455
NSN 5950-00-079-0363
NSN 4140-00-495-8704
NSN 5905-01-422-1670
NSN 5945-01-214-1753