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 5950-00-614-8078
NSN 5935-01-583-7342
NSN 5915-00-411-4865
NSN 6135-01-213-7339
NSN 5999-00-186-9314
NSN 7035-01-443-3052
NSN 5930-00-925-5492
NSN 6650-01-258-0811
NSN 5895-01-396-7426
NSN 5905-01-294-3865
NSN 5990-00-900-4459
NSN 6320-01-177-3192