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 5998-01-034-8874
NSN 2925-01-394-9658
NSN 6320-01-445-5893
NSN 6645-00-536-1555
NSN 5910-01-550-9709
NSN 2925-00-118-4887
NSN 5920-01-194-9541
NSN 5965-00-296-9994
NSN 6110-00-652-6643
NSN 5920-01-552-4575
NSN 7035-01-501-5938
NSN 6150-01-032-2916