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 5835-00-906-4605
NSN 6105-01-538-4026
NSN 5999-01-558-9511
NSN 5945-01-281-9531
NSN 6220-01-074-9657
NSN 5990-00-844-5659
NSN 6110-00-725-9740
NSN 6645-01-069-1326
NSN 4140-00-249-5603
NSN 6620-01-116-3983
NSN 5965-01-474-5654
NSN 5985-00-466-3574