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 5895-00-119-5692
NSN 4140-01-502-5601
NSN 6645-00-998-7820
NSN 5905-01-272-3682
NSN 5930-01-370-1726
NSN 5925-01-109-1869
NSN 6685-00-513-0412
NSN 5998-01-548-7538
NSN 5925-00-256-1218
NSN 5950-00-936-0510
NSN 6645-00-535-6634
NSN 5930-00-084-2673