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 5990-00-127-2306
NSN 5925-01-592-3077
NSN 5925-01-460-7269
NSN 5999-01-508-4153
NSN 5975-00-070-9553
NSN 6650-00-346-9106
NSN 5998-01-323-6597
NSN 5835-01-046-5632
NSN 5905-00-214-7303
NSN 4140-01-072-4337
NSN 7035-01-343-2582
NSN 5950-01-537-9763