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 5985-01-096-3746
NSN 5998-01-604-8945
NSN 6150-00-789-7347
NSN 6220-00-109-6672
NSN 5835-01-350-0566
NSN 6135-01-142-2417
NSN 6145-01-515-9871
NSN 5895-00-159-1237
NSN 5930-00-554-1064
NSN 5905-01-605-6792
NSN 6320-00-853-1920
NSN 5905-00-083-6394