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 5910-01-531-4796
NSN 7035-01-604-9807
NSN 5945-00-162-7738
NSN 6620-01-415-5803
NSN 5985-01-399-6843
NSN 6645-00-085-7603
NSN 5915-01-030-1899
NSN 5996-01-348-6484
NSN 5920-00-925-2639
NSN 5895-01-150-9281
NSN 6620-01-401-5356
NSN 2925-01-359-9818