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 5998-01-395-9475
NSN 5920-01-568-3556
NSN 7035-01-268-0933
NSN 5945-00-813-2213
NSN 6685-01-362-2025
NSN 5945-00-294-4869
NSN 6105-01-100-1857
NSN 5990-01-013-8464
NSN 5950-01-308-7583
NSN 6650-00-789-8179
NSN 6240-01-433-5413
NSN 5965-01-156-7013