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 5855-01-387-5224
NSN 6220-01-591-7348
NSN 6220-01-659-9722
NSN 5895-01-560-9476
NSN 6650-01-472-3955
NSN 5945-00-312-4265
NSN 5910-01-368-8810
NSN 6110-01-332-9027
NSN 6220-00-021-3046
NSN 5925-01-129-1352
NSN 6105-01-361-5410
NSN 5915-01-379-7723