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 5985-01-331-5119
NSN 5945-01-116-3112
NSN 5930-01-255-7660
NSN 6240-00-299-9819
NSN 6240-01-111-8291
NSN 4140-00-012-3506
NSN 6150-00-959-5565
NSN 6650-01-099-8618
NSN 5855-00-763-2155
NSN 5930-00-198-7475
NSN 6650-01-437-0855
NSN 6130-01-020-7307