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 5950-01-627-4779
NSN 7035-00-834-2090
NSN 5935-01-297-4415
NSN 5998-01-200-0641
NSN 4140-01-376-3104
NSN 5998-01-171-1795
NSN 6645-01-112-3242
NSN 5910-01-445-1227
NSN 5945-00-135-4134
NSN 6320-00-937-5625
NSN 6135-01-092-4734
NSN 5920-00-246-4657