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 2925-01-629-9416
NSN 6130-01-144-7588
NSN 5905-00-469-9418
NSN 6610-01-364-7500
NSN 5835-01-120-8829
NSN 6240-00-727-8573
NSN 6145-01-020-7722
NSN 4140-00-499-5732
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 5960-00-496-6473
NSN 5999-00-114-1486
NSN 5910-01-491-4881