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 5950-01-371-3158
NSN 6130-01-630-7067
NSN 6240-01-351-6729
NSN 5930-01-517-6020
NSN 5985-01-025-2294
NSN 6650-01-510-9488
NSN 5835-00-471-2660
NSN 5975-00-185-0804
NSN 6130-01-359-5734
NSN 5910-00-006-1422
NSN 2925-01-261-0701
NSN 5930-01-222-0749