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 6105-00-799-8897
NSN 5975-01-461-3120
NSN 5930-00-141-9957
NSN 6610-01-080-1041
NSN 5895-01-479-3466
NSN 5985-00-822-8671
NSN 5905-00-849-2643
NSN 6130-01-334-6945
NSN 5925-01-020-7706
NSN 5975-00-470-7527
NSN 6645-01-525-7493
NSN 6320-00-242-3300