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 5855-01-538-0789
NSN 5895-01-342-7748
NSN 5920-01-444-9935
NSN 4140-01-304-7563
NSN 6610-01-539-9084
NSN 5999-01-512-2326
NSN 5930-01-258-6713
NSN 6320-00-539-9283
NSN 6110-01-144-5970
NSN 6130-01-257-8876
NSN 6110-00-757-9099
NSN 5835-01-514-5758