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 5999-01-097-3412
NSN 5999-01-297-7660
NSN 5855-01-252-5424
NSN 5910-00-269-4755
NSN 5910-01-444-1429
NSN 5998-01-501-5450
NSN 5905-01-359-1963
NSN 5935-01-213-4452
NSN 5895-01-418-0850
NSN 5935-01-277-6994
NSN 2925-00-623-3103
NSN 5990-01-266-9144