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 2925-01-629-9416
NSN 5996-01-264-8463
NSN 5945-01-403-2800
NSN 5965-01-312-7972
NSN 6135-01-415-1163
NSN 5945-01-443-5357
NSN 6320-01-454-1965
NSN 5895-01-024-9287
NSN 5998-01-495-8436
NSN 5915-01-169-9882
NSN 6145-00-246-2424
NSN 6135-00-477-8847