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 5935-01-143-6668
NSN 2925-00-486-8640
NSN 6135-01-412-5836
NSN 5920-01-339-7421
NSN 5835-01-641-0073
NSN 6620-00-098-5652
NSN 6150-01-034-7686
NSN 5975-01-356-7617
NSN 5915-01-388-2755
NSN 7035-01-286-2677
NSN 5835-00-113-6090
NSN 6150-01-455-8313