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 5990-01-212-2037
NSN 5835-01-525-3220
NSN 6650-00-434-0188
NSN 5945-01-429-7003
NSN 5930-01-502-1655
NSN 5915-01-333-4749
NSN 5905-01-503-8040
NSN 5895-00-149-1110
NSN 6130-01-012-4266
NSN 5930-00-107-5228
NSN 6150-01-309-2170
NSN 6110-01-331-5393