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 5998-01-132-9106
NSN 5945-00-127-2281
NSN 6135-00-016-0071
NSN 5965-01-592-3051
NSN 6135-01-350-5845
NSN 5950-00-171-2894
NSN 7035-01-411-6062
NSN 5998-01-607-5598
NSN 5855-01-290-3248
NSN 5920-01-010-3293
NSN 6610-01-016-3566
NSN 5960-01-491-2993