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 6610-01-542-8825
NSN 5895-00-788-3966
NSN 5945-01-429-9824
NSN 6130-01-136-9521
NSN 5925-00-373-0936
NSN 5855-01-188-4049
NSN 7035-00-205-1932
NSN 5835-01-584-8538
NSN 6110-00-991-2395
NSN 4140-00-942-7159
NSN 5999-01-323-4522
NSN 5930-01-025-4963