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 5915-01-433-2128
NSN 2925-01-612-0405
NSN 7035-01-468-6532
NSN 6150-00-777-7909
NSN 5960-01-228-4532
NSN 6240-01-434-6374
NSN 6150-01-572-6631
NSN 7035-00-205-1932
NSN 5985-01-378-8653
NSN 5996-01-611-2924
NSN 5925-01-011-4734
NSN 4140-00-902-7744