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 5960-01-194-4506
NSN 5930-01-020-7556
NSN 5855-01-318-7663
NSN 6105-01-082-8528
NSN 6650-00-618-9398
NSN 5999-01-627-2686
NSN 6685-00-036-0972
NSN 7035-00-916-9380
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 7035-00-225-6499
NSN 6645-00-787-8813
NSN 5945-00-876-6578