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 5975-01-359-6443
NSN 5985-00-677-8177
NSN 6240-01-089-1383
NSN 5930-00-577-0621
NSN 6135-01-463-2445
NSN 2925-01-517-4037
NSN 6685-01-627-9606
NSN 5975-01-309-1322
NSN 5945-00-269-5375
NSN 6110-01-106-4440
NSN 5930-00-913-7960
NSN 5935-00-193-3738