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 6610-01-247-6374
NSN 5998-01-065-4040
NSN 5950-00-979-9023
NSN 5960-01-228-6549
NSN 6650-01-183-0711
NSN 4140-01-611-8801
NSN 5999-01-315-8105
NSN 5950-01-089-8465
NSN 7035-00-756-4374
NSN 4140-00-196-7139
NSN 5895-01-448-9587
NSN 6610-00-008-4075