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 5990-01-633-9503
NSN 5895-01-053-6273
NSN 6135-01-551-0562
NSN 5935-01-332-6563
NSN 5895-01-278-9379
NSN 5960-00-985-2783
NSN 5975-01-355-1598
NSN 6145-01-461-2167
NSN 6685-01-383-1178
NSN 5835-01-249-7393
NSN 6135-01-423-7502
NSN 6145-00-171-3152