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 5835-01-226-2337
NSN 6105-00-688-5679
NSN 6650-01-363-6675
NSN 5930-01-236-8797
NSN 5990-01-472-2447
NSN 6620-01-012-2852
NSN 5950-01-154-2158
NSN 4140-01-176-6876
NSN 6110-01-487-5174
NSN 5920-00-855-5314
NSN 6110-01-378-8801
NSN 5965-00-387-6880