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 5835-01-078-3675
NSN 6610-00-905-6780
NSN 5990-01-550-7827
NSN 5996-01-569-1949
NSN 5925-01-292-3301
NSN 5999-01-096-8892
NSN 5895-00-997-0978
NSN 5920-01-182-4940
NSN 5935-00-791-3248
NSN 6145-01-512-8688
NSN 5990-01-254-3197
NSN 6685-01-176-0413