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 5999-01-160-7465
NSN 5920-00-288-5849
NSN 5835-01-347-8714
NSN 6110-01-258-3638
NSN 5999-01-619-2081
NSN 5999-01-125-1018
NSN 5910-01-448-6675
NSN 5855-00-100-9003
NSN 5855-00-761-6559
NSN 4140-00-227-8228
NSN 4140-01-513-4243
NSN 5945-00-736-1465