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 5855-01-406-2606
NSN 5985-01-470-7954
NSN 5999-01-250-1666
NSN 5999-01-197-6952
NSN 5935-01-437-6905
NSN 5960-01-328-8248
NSN 6610-01-125-9899
NSN 5999-01-035-8575
NSN 5930-01-239-4443
NSN 5925-01-127-2074
NSN 5930-01-318-7362
NSN 4140-01-270-7464