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 5990-01-498-0641
NSN 5895-00-156-8601
NSN 6145-00-705-6686
NSN 2925-01-139-5144
NSN 6685-00-265-7530
NSN 6645-01-420-4464
NSN 5960-01-044-3798
NSN 5910-00-471-2210
NSN 5998-01-123-2458
NSN 5905-01-236-9145
NSN 6130-00-635-9853
NSN 5895-01-403-2793