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 5985-01-415-3134
NSN 5895-01-579-0734
NSN 5950-01-206-3741
NSN 6620-00-635-7347
NSN 2925-01-094-4114
NSN 5935-00-752-7707
NSN 5935-00-145-4972
NSN 5950-01-328-2814
NSN 6610-01-367-1640
NSN 2925-00-800-4685
NSN 6240-01-270-5998
NSN 6145-01-617-2045