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 6130-01-455-8657
NSN 5998-00-721-4701
NSN 5945-00-544-9858
NSN 6240-00-765-4220
NSN 5910-01-442-2528
NSN 2925-01-230-8057
NSN 6240-01-200-7937
NSN 5930-01-231-9605
NSN 6130-00-186-8460
NSN 6105-01-350-0308
NSN 5935-01-097-8614
NSN 5930-00-541-8594