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 6685-01-573-5841
NSN 5960-00-185-9974
NSN 6240-01-558-4538
NSN 6650-01-209-1422
NSN 5930-00-243-1962
NSN 5960-00-190-5817
NSN 6130-00-214-8583
NSN 5960-00-511-1418
NSN 5975-01-447-6439
NSN 7035-01-502-6764
NSN 5945-01-275-5904
NSN 5965-01-227-4517