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 5975-01-426-4332
NSN 6110-01-645-0004
NSN 2925-01-208-6638
NSN 5999-01-041-5880
NSN 6645-00-544-8529
NSN 5925-01-462-0068
NSN 4140-01-424-0841
NSN 6130-00-778-4442
NSN 5999-00-704-5449
NSN 5985-01-119-0541
NSN 5975-00-891-9738
NSN 7035-00-631-3782