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 5920-01-442-3395
NSN 5998-01-142-7160
NSN 5998-00-994-9766
NSN 5910-01-038-8698
NSN 5895-01-567-6408
NSN 5935-01-500-7652
NSN 6130-00-643-4894
NSN 6105-01-421-2413
NSN 5910-01-043-7926
NSN 5990-01-527-7640
NSN 5905-01-292-7478
NSN 5965-01-230-2351