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 5990-01-254-3197
NSN 6320-01-088-1109
NSN 6645-01-092-4733
NSN 6620-01-582-2046
NSN 5975-01-435-2152
NSN 5915-01-451-5712
NSN 5935-01-454-9907
NSN 5925-01-286-9651
NSN 5950-01-428-7776
NSN 5960-01-378-1729
NSN 5905-00-150-8601
NSN 6150-01-264-8781