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 5835-01-414-3258
NSN 5996-00-469-0737
NSN 5960-01-224-7151
NSN 5905-00-946-0377
NSN 5965-01-412-5946
NSN 6135-00-495-6862
NSN 5950-00-035-8791
NSN 5935-01-336-5183
NSN 5930-01-545-1928
NSN 5998-01-650-3588
NSN 5935-01-355-1620
NSN 4140-01-469-6140