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 5855-00-079-2370
NSN 6650-01-049-5361
NSN 6145-01-431-0627
NSN 5998-00-307-1043
NSN 5895-01-488-9778
NSN 6220-00-128-8540
NSN 5915-00-540-8350
NSN 6240-01-381-1618
NSN 5990-01-090-9312
NSN 6610-01-262-3467
NSN 5950-01-092-0889
NSN 7035-01-080-3392