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 5985-00-368-2395
NSN 4140-01-570-8071
NSN 5975-01-009-3723
NSN 5998-01-075-5624
NSN 5930-01-411-4980
NSN 5905-00-446-9083
NSN 5930-00-706-8498
NSN 5925-01-465-4266
NSN 6130-01-415-6547
NSN 4140-00-274-9638
NSN 6685-01-460-4771
NSN 5925-01-317-3869