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 5945-01-622-4451
NSN 4140-00-289-4334
NSN 6650-01-608-6349
NSN 5895-01-289-1227
NSN 5905-00-899-4604
NSN 6135-01-322-4655
NSN 6130-01-070-2884
NSN 6610-00-855-2821
NSN 5835-00-821-8555
NSN 6650-01-234-7012
NSN 5998-01-415-3841
NSN 6110-01-447-6813