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 6145-01-043-4530
NSN 6685-01-038-2451
NSN 5950-01-464-3494
NSN 5990-00-900-4459
NSN 6620-01-160-3475
NSN 5905-00-851-2810
NSN 5950-00-159-9795
NSN 4140-01-255-2420
NSN 6220-00-910-0320
NSN 6110-01-633-9660
NSN 5996-01-268-1625
NSN 2925-01-086-5507