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 5910-01-215-3472
NSN 5999-01-461-7968
NSN 7035-01-138-5781
NSN 5998-00-418-4206
NSN 5975-01-276-6791
NSN 6650-00-279-5741
NSN 5996-01-351-6181
NSN 5935-01-456-0022
NSN 2925-00-872-4474
NSN 5985-01-132-1304
NSN 5945-00-551-0747
NSN 6135-01-554-8523