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 5945-01-126-9319
NSN 5905-01-039-7029
NSN 7035-01-545-3212
NSN 5945-00-835-0362
NSN 6650-00-361-8222
NSN 5905-01-485-2326
NSN 5935-01-461-2137
NSN 6130-01-658-1673
NSN 2925-00-343-3235
NSN 5950-01-514-2881
NSN 6220-00-314-1751
NSN 6135-01-238-2878