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 5855-01-003-7102
NSN 5935-01-236-4236
NSN 6220-01-190-8605
NSN 5895-01-415-5786
NSN 6110-01-383-4709
NSN 5855-01-388-6837
NSN 5920-00-598-0469
NSN 6130-00-654-5833
NSN 6110-01-216-5593
NSN 6645-01-485-4521
NSN 4140-01-418-0831
NSN 6645-00-754-4108