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 6105-00-934-0451
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 6130-01-234-3562
NSN 5975-00-480-0114
NSN 5835-01-125-0303
NSN 6620-01-236-0138
NSN 5915-00-599-5546
NSN 5925-01-351-5542
NSN 6620-00-706-2481
NSN 5975-01-163-6562
NSN 5920-01-185-2222
NSN 5895-01-627-8161