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 5950-01-381-0490
NSN 6610-01-365-7796
NSN 5935-01-063-4287
NSN 5905-00-085-4486
NSN 5910-00-227-0848
NSN 5895-01-018-4919
NSN 2925-01-084-1240
NSN 5996-01-484-8867
NSN 5965-00-578-8931
NSN 5855-01-122-9418
NSN 6240-01-107-9795
NSN 6220-01-558-3212