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 5935-01-536-9478
NSN 6320-01-556-2011
NSN 5965-01-415-3865
NSN 5998-01-016-2300
NSN 5925-01-264-9786
NSN 6220-01-271-5007
NSN 5998-01-270-1079
NSN 5855-01-476-4219
NSN 5998-01-069-4967
NSN 5925-00-351-6296
NSN 5945-00-411-8827
NSN 6620-01-045-4467