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 5855-01-318-7663
NSN 5990-00-880-1299
NSN 6620-01-571-7727
NSN 5895-01-212-3012
NSN 6240-00-723-3378
NSN 6145-01-215-9853
NSN 5985-01-429-9286
NSN 4140-01-582-4334
NSN 6320-01-521-1764
NSN 6650-00-180-5184
NSN 5999-01-557-4465
NSN 2925-01-212-1040