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 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 6220-00-149-0977
NSN 5990-01-143-2518
NSN 5895-01-478-0863
NSN 6610-00-313-0660
NSN 6685-01-352-7241
NSN 5835-01-244-8532
NSN 6320-01-543-3238
NSN 5915-00-425-9852
NSN 5835-01-362-8367
NSN 4140-01-170-7617
NSN 5945-01-152-2945