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 5998-01-401-5396
NSN 6685-00-403-1226
NSN 5835-01-026-0670
NSN 5945-01-461-3060
NSN 6220-01-028-8287
NSN 5999-01-460-7326
NSN 6650-00-904-9485
NSN 5950-01-187-6257
NSN 6610-01-074-9798
NSN 6320-01-230-8444
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5930-00-064-8137