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 7035-01-560-2623
NSN 6150-01-146-5021
NSN 5998-01-328-8288
NSN 6130-01-306-5099
NSN 5950-00-364-8162
NSN 2925-00-144-6405
NSN 6110-01-535-9371
NSN 5905-00-491-6577
NSN 6145-00-804-6037
NSN 6135-01-563-4445
NSN 4140-01-634-0330
NSN 6645-01-207-5065