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 2925-01-385-1763
NSN 6220-01-568-2671
NSN 5835-01-580-0446
NSN 5905-01-104-9844
NSN 2925-00-402-5582
NSN 5920-01-338-4671
NSN 6645-01-062-3594
NSN 4140-00-249-5603
NSN 5930-01-136-8396
NSN 5920-01-567-6959
NSN 6110-01-242-8257
NSN 5910-00-573-0169