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 6610-01-222-2558
NSN 6135-00-985-7846
NSN 6145-01-526-1651
NSN 5990-00-174-6695
NSN 4140-00-580-0716
NSN 6610-01-514-3539
NSN 5835-01-010-0002
NSN 6105-00-790-4781
NSN 5910-00-878-0596
NSN 5960-01-421-0887
NSN 6105-00-917-6898
NSN 6620-01-350-5103