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 6130-00-240-0026
NSN 5895-01-302-1889
NSN 6645-01-086-7668
NSN 2925-00-833-9466
NSN 6685-00-552-2154
NSN 5895-00-450-9889
NSN 5998-00-654-5278
NSN 5999-01-392-6313
NSN 5960-01-054-9639
NSN 6320-01-643-0850
NSN 5945-01-471-3407
NSN 5925-01-250-5875