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 5999-01-160-4206
NSN 6645-01-038-6978
NSN 2925-01-150-2568
NSN 5915-00-166-6027
NSN 5999-00-155-3088
NSN 5965-00-249-6980
NSN 6320-00-931-4855
NSN 6685-00-555-4198
NSN 6220-00-167-5441
NSN 5996-01-560-1217
NSN 6130-01-244-9228
NSN 6110-00-677-5764