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 5996-01-371-2958
NSN 6110-01-441-7370
NSN 5930-00-926-2538
NSN 5935-01-303-7895
NSN 6645-01-609-7365
NSN 5935-00-845-4517
NSN 5925-01-660-2124
NSN 5905-00-678-9847
NSN 6110-00-227-0578
NSN 5835-01-584-8538
NSN 5965-01-292-0035
NSN 5920-01-039-2236