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 5998-01-320-1713
NSN 7035-00-140-3070
NSN 5895-01-418-7026
NSN 6620-01-647-8261
NSN 5998-01-555-7083
NSN 6105-01-257-1870
NSN 5945-01-541-4827
NSN 5915-01-381-8597
NSN 5905-01-423-4235
NSN 6240-01-367-3656
NSN 2925-00-063-0788
NSN 5935-01-086-8673