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 7035-01-445-3563
NSN 6130-01-231-1561
NSN 5855-01-188-4049
NSN 6685-01-519-9250
NSN 5996-01-409-1020
NSN 5915-01-497-4671
NSN 6620-01-376-9182
NSN 5998-00-226-0901
NSN 5985-01-414-5120
NSN 5935-01-191-0165
NSN 6650-01-096-6803
NSN 6130-01-321-9517