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 5910-01-458-8961
NSN 6610-01-497-1688
NSN 2925-01-205-4584
NSN 6150-00-705-8651
NSN 5990-01-586-2475
NSN 5999-00-245-2104
NSN 6105-00-553-8943
NSN 5855-01-477-3241
NSN 6145-01-615-4241
NSN 5996-01-487-4377
NSN 5999-01-029-9987
NSN 5996-00-953-5126