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 5985-01-480-4164
NSN 6240-01-462-5433
NSN 6110-00-860-1014
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 6620-00-065-3235
NSN 5835-00-023-0780
NSN 6320-00-456-0836
NSN 6110-01-391-6497
NSN 4140-01-324-0324
NSN 6685-00-015-3192
NSN 4140-01-146-8274
NSN 6135-00-080-9176