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 5915-01-449-2994
NSN 4140-01-121-7902
NSN 6320-00-725-0754
NSN 5855-01-254-3041
NSN 5925-00-409-5577
NSN 6620-01-168-7690
NSN 6105-01-426-7906
NSN 6135-01-507-3613
NSN 5999-01-371-8924
NSN 5925-01-147-5725
NSN 6110-01-131-1380
NSN 7035-01-271-1643