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 5925-01-023-1411
NSN 6220-00-445-4050
NSN 6650-00-936-7910
NSN 5945-00-010-1710
NSN 6645-00-433-6027
NSN 5915-01-552-3324
NSN 5930-00-548-9863
NSN 5910-01-573-2828
NSN 6220-00-458-4633
NSN 6645-01-340-3033
NSN 6135-00-973-5632
NSN 5905-01-487-4793