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 5835-01-468-0579
NSN 5960-00-674-7247
NSN 5996-01-052-4027
NSN 4140-00-200-9082
NSN 5965-01-024-7960
NSN 6620-01-149-9192
NSN 6645-00-234-7223
NSN 5895-00-542-2019
NSN 4140-01-468-0476
NSN 5930-01-579-5684
NSN 5960-01-589-6846
NSN 2925-01-317-1186