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 5945-01-272-4414
NSN 6110-00-303-4955
NSN 6135-00-134-6648
NSN 5915-01-181-7056
NSN 5998-00-987-5489
NSN 6610-00-419-0315
NSN 6110-01-198-1557
NSN 5935-01-416-6701
NSN 2925-01-556-0333
NSN 6320-01-054-3046
NSN 5895-01-224-6591
NSN 6135-01-578-7440