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 5985-01-644-5585
NSN 6105-00-401-5379
NSN 6130-01-578-6111
NSN 5855-01-605-2438
NSN 6645-01-383-6514
NSN 5998-00-633-0572
NSN 5960-00-156-4954
NSN 5925-01-458-7666
NSN 6135-00-255-1340
NSN 5910-01-275-7984
NSN 5975-00-822-9146
NSN 5960-01-580-6360