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 6650-01-272-3727
NSN 6645-01-060-7988
NSN 6145-00-760-7613
NSN 5935-00-372-5261
NSN 5990-01-642-1668
NSN 6135-00-968-8594
NSN 6150-01-521-3243
NSN 6130-01-390-2675
NSN 5945-01-578-0924
NSN 5925-01-334-8402
NSN 6220-00-437-7851
NSN 5910-00-271-6826