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 2925-01-312-9502
NSN 6135-01-069-2482
NSN 5999-01-056-4490
NSN 5950-01-216-4282
NSN 5930-01-317-0585
NSN 5910-00-909-3677
NSN 6645-01-244-4881
NSN 6610-00-052-8020
NSN 5855-01-433-7009
NSN 5945-00-280-7765
NSN 5925-01-421-8721
NSN 5895-00-233-5901