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 6645-01-392-4788
NSN 2925-01-594-5385
NSN 6110-01-608-3775
NSN 2925-01-542-1865
NSN 5920-01-388-3543
NSN 5975-01-159-9315
NSN 6610-00-866-4348
NSN 6240-01-442-7746
NSN 5975-01-564-4220
NSN 5915-01-023-7674
NSN 5945-01-341-4055
NSN 5950-01-621-9714