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 6220-01-610-5783
NSN 5999-01-221-5350
NSN 6130-00-067-4097
NSN 5925-01-529-3547
NSN 5910-01-232-6438
NSN 5965-00-791-0964
NSN 2925-01-025-0082
NSN 5895-00-891-4498
NSN 5945-01-506-2476
NSN 5935-00-048-6921
NSN 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 6110-00-202-1021