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 6135-01-100-9056
NSN 5905-00-538-5803
NSN 6145-01-619-7359
NSN 6650-01-030-0238
NSN 6130-01-015-6074
NSN 2925-01-411-8002
NSN 5945-00-259-7758
NSN 5855-01-441-3189
NSN 6110-01-392-0498
NSN 5930-01-385-5148
NSN 5985-00-813-9111
NSN 6105-01-243-5858