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 6610-01-327-3187
NSN 5990-01-231-1214
NSN 6620-01-423-0833
NSN 6150-01-055-6068
NSN 6685-01-360-0374
NSN 5975-01-108-9403
NSN 5895-00-596-8678
NSN 6110-01-376-7251
NSN 6240-01-415-8479
NSN 6110-01-330-2699
NSN 4140-01-146-5409
NSN 6610-00-561-4730