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 5999-01-386-6482
NSN 6135-01-213-7339
NSN 6620-01-611-3511
NSN 5960-01-217-8928
NSN 6105-00-020-3591
NSN 5895-01-458-8043
NSN 6130-00-736-0404
NSN 5945-00-596-2665
NSN 4140-00-947-3918
NSN 6135-01-116-3385
NSN 5835-01-324-0089
NSN 6110-00-148-3661