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 5895-01-537-8957
NSN 5998-01-154-3019
NSN 6105-01-634-0322
NSN 6240-01-144-5898
NSN 6135-00-803-3012
NSN 5990-00-060-0012
NSN 5990-01-052-9343
NSN 6320-01-473-9024
NSN 5950-00-933-6085
NSN 5999-01-212-1109
NSN 6220-01-159-9080
NSN 5935-01-543-7728