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 5855-01-534-3724
NSN 4140-01-654-1341
NSN 5910-00-451-0834
NSN 5990-01-623-0082
NSN 7035-00-433-5670
NSN 6650-01-290-4001
NSN 5925-01-188-1170
NSN 2925-00-866-2757
NSN 5950-00-050-5240
NSN 6620-00-877-3266
NSN 5945-00-993-9048
NSN 5905-01-568-4031