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 5895-01-449-2804
NSN 6150-01-260-3051
NSN 5990-01-320-1412
NSN 5945-00-649-7796
NSN 6610-01-183-9141
NSN 6610-01-336-8027
NSN 6130-01-197-7397
NSN 5935-01-373-9894
NSN 6610-01-353-4883
NSN 5835-00-224-9148
NSN 5930-01-523-5196
NSN 6320-00-886-9771