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 2925-01-439-4451
NSN 6150-01-434-9024
NSN 6685-00-804-3020
NSN 5905-01-053-5800
NSN 6130-01-371-2960
NSN 5985-01-498-0332
NSN 5960-01-071-3338
NSN 5998-00-629-8678
NSN 6145-01-541-5056
NSN 5915-00-516-9987
NSN 6135-01-658-7467
NSN 6110-01-229-1087