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 5925-01-121-6281
NSN 5990-01-338-2103
NSN 6685-01-387-8482
NSN 7035-00-946-2642
NSN 7035-01-554-7482
NSN 5945-01-564-9002
NSN 5925-01-259-4736
NSN 4140-00-838-1252
NSN 5935-00-222-6074
NSN 6130-00-929-6699
NSN 6645-00-009-8811
NSN 5855-00-455-6070