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 6135-01-199-1185
NSN 5925-00-847-7725
NSN 6650-00-754-2276
NSN 7035-00-064-7008
NSN 4140-00-725-3033
NSN 6645-00-183-8812
NSN 6130-01-457-4525
NSN 5990-00-147-3144
NSN 5905-00-958-4571
NSN 5910-01-057-2682
NSN 6105-01-268-2290
NSN 6130-00-387-2051