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 7035-01-336-0464
NSN 5998-01-654-3197
NSN 5835-00-240-5044
NSN 5925-01-378-2914
NSN 6650-01-476-3329
NSN 5975-01-362-9086
NSN 6130-01-568-0625
NSN 5965-01-408-4190
NSN 5935-01-191-1445
NSN 5996-01-117-2559
NSN 5996-01-411-3894
NSN 6150-01-106-4678