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 5920-01-367-2542
NSN 5990-01-017-5117
NSN 5930-00-299-7623
NSN 6150-01-146-5562
NSN 5910-01-165-6246
NSN 2925-01-100-3694
NSN 7035-00-455-7666
NSN 6150-00-374-2271
NSN 6620-00-520-1909
NSN 5835-01-256-3166
NSN 6620-01-630-1721
NSN 5985-00-468-1360