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 5975-01-524-4812
NSN 5945-00-001-3916
NSN 5996-01-310-8683
NSN 2925-01-222-7764
NSN 5910-01-456-2540
NSN 6135-01-398-5922
NSN 5975-00-907-2909
NSN 7035-01-543-0044
NSN 5960-01-236-1169
NSN 5999-00-233-6366
NSN 5920-01-301-3837
NSN 5960-00-807-5272