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 6130-00-910-2757
NSN 6645-01-519-3007
NSN 6150-01-553-6432
NSN 5996-01-227-3005
NSN 6620-00-888-3179
NSN 6610-01-512-3248
NSN 5996-01-455-2198
NSN 5910-00-468-4118
NSN 6240-01-425-0857
NSN 7035-01-609-1852
NSN 5950-00-929-5298
NSN 4140-00-411-4720