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 5990-01-419-0661
NSN 5975-00-908-1556
NSN 6320-01-334-9840
NSN 6650-01-467-2355
NSN 5910-01-370-5931
NSN 6130-01-595-2236
NSN 6110-00-260-0130
NSN 6620-00-596-1951
NSN 5935-01-525-6669
NSN 5910-01-632-5248
NSN 6130-01-307-8273
NSN 5975-01-502-9662