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 6645-01-583-8153
NSN 5925-00-405-3363
NSN 6110-01-196-2146
NSN 2925-00-221-4977
NSN 5905-01-553-8696
NSN 6650-00-585-2786
NSN 6135-00-299-6918
NSN 5998-01-104-3878
NSN 6220-01-286-6720
NSN 5915-01-178-8444
NSN 2925-01-424-0235
NSN 5998-00-067-3842