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 5835-01-514-5758
NSN 5895-01-655-1418
NSN 5935-01-463-3178
NSN 6150-01-170-4773
NSN 6240-00-491-0517
NSN 4140-01-342-1345
NSN 7035-00-897-7567
NSN 5925-01-547-0661
NSN 7035-01-618-0244
NSN 6105-01-520-6202
NSN 5855-00-532-0025
NSN 6610-01-112-0447