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 5910-01-424-0225
NSN 6220-00-073-4713
NSN 6110-00-810-4142
NSN 5835-00-523-0736
NSN 6620-00-404-0149
NSN 6685-00-476-7023
NSN 5960-01-124-4144
NSN 5996-01-238-5494
NSN 5950-00-643-2570
NSN 5915-01-411-6933
NSN 5965-01-164-7982
NSN 6145-00-912-6116