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 2925-01-384-4139
NSN 6610-00-180-9004
NSN 6130-01-394-6296
NSN 5920-01-551-2775
NSN 6610-00-891-6370
NSN 5999-00-606-4040
NSN 2925-00-508-6032
NSN 6240-00-861-2592
NSN 6240-00-056-0737
NSN 6240-00-822-4571
NSN 6220-01-298-1499
NSN 5996-01-159-9089