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 6105-01-599-1590
NSN 5920-01-486-1626
NSN 6650-01-044-6377
NSN 5835-00-327-6192
NSN 5925-01-357-7027
NSN 5960-01-257-0225
NSN 6105-01-587-4705
NSN 5975-00-917-7562
NSN 5935-00-484-1291
NSN 5985-01-024-9464
NSN 6610-01-078-9238
NSN 5935-01-227-6878