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 6685-01-084-5195
NSN 6110-00-902-3727
NSN 5985-00-950-0249
NSN 5895-01-456-8415
NSN 5910-01-070-3116
NSN 4140-01-158-6976
NSN 5990-00-206-3753
NSN 2925-01-100-3694
NSN 5920-00-616-4087
NSN 5998-01-070-6837
NSN 6130-00-500-4860
NSN 5950-01-464-4824