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 5990-01-548-3711
NSN 5910-01-646-1249
NSN 6320-00-310-1080
NSN 6110-01-569-4253
NSN 5996-01-069-5662
NSN 6135-01-343-7093
NSN 5930-01-547-7472
NSN 5855-01-641-2736
NSN 5999-01-295-3985
NSN 4140-00-083-1120
NSN 5975-01-102-1589
NSN 6645-01-298-4662