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 5935-01-593-2916
NSN 6610-01-497-6365
NSN 6240-00-409-8295
NSN 5935-01-467-3594
NSN 5975-01-587-6287
NSN 5990-01-078-1294
NSN 5910-00-617-5262
NSN 5990-01-632-0969
NSN 5930-00-114-5335
NSN 5855-01-130-1501
NSN 5935-00-518-3576
NSN 5930-00-543-3216