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 5855-01-634-0259
NSN 5985-01-350-4448
NSN 6135-01-487-6275
NSN 6110-01-504-5907
NSN 5996-01-154-2443
NSN 5935-00-021-2676
NSN 5965-00-762-0630
NSN 5915-00-233-6346
NSN 5950-01-150-1628
NSN 6320-00-519-0770
NSN 6150-01-452-3117
NSN 5905-01-517-2324