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 5975-01-438-9406
NSN 6685-01-426-0425
NSN 6150-00-659-1310
NSN 6610-00-572-8786
NSN 5835-01-011-4366
NSN 5996-00-040-9094
NSN 6110-00-307-2643
NSN 5925-01-294-8331
NSN 5985-00-850-8283
NSN 2925-01-588-3507
NSN 5999-01-298-6340
NSN 4140-01-430-4904