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 5996-01-413-0229
NSN 6130-01-235-2824
NSN 5945-01-326-3516
NSN 6685-00-929-6093
NSN 5950-00-269-4805
NSN 6135-00-613-1068
NSN 5910-01-373-6940
NSN 6645-00-935-7046
NSN 5935-01-534-9715
NSN 5985-01-499-9121
NSN 5835-00-912-5656
NSN 5930-01-082-2794