Esd
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 6110-00-942-4837
NSN 6610-01-555-8791
NSN 6240-01-599-2679
NSN 7035-01-419-4317
NSN 6620-01-087-2354
NSN 5960-00-506-8064
NSN 5920-01-197-8397
NSN 6105-01-543-0872
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 6650-00-237-4076
NSN 6110-01-495-2860
NSN 6610-00-419-7844