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 5960-00-698-3765
NSN 6320-01-527-0211
NSN 5998-01-360-7664
NSN 5835-01-561-2959
NSN 5835-01-090-0784
NSN 5950-01-414-1398
NSN 5925-00-492-7905
NSN 6320-00-004-9158
NSN 5925-01-278-8509
NSN 6130-01-312-6058
NSN 5990-00-402-7721
NSN 5855-00-256-5562