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 5835-01-352-6725
NSN 5960-01-166-4021
NSN 6150-01-166-7466
NSN 6650-01-411-6292
NSN 5985-01-630-5700
NSN 5910-00-834-5013
NSN 5905-01-144-3879
NSN 5905-00-862-9362
NSN 5945-00-290-1779
NSN 2925-01-560-4123
NSN 5965-01-056-1303
NSN 5905-01-310-3730