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 5920-01-386-5798
NSN 5965-00-170-5254
NSN 6610-00-155-1334
NSN 6240-00-999-7806
NSN 5985-01-137-6528
NSN 6145-00-209-5657
NSN 6650-00-479-7888
NSN 6240-01-388-4099
NSN 6645-01-232-4843
NSN 6320-01-381-7023
NSN 6135-01-295-8315
NSN 4140-01-322-8491