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 6145-01-650-4477
NSN 5920-00-539-7847
NSN 5855-00-189-6066
NSN 7035-01-023-7859
NSN 5998-01-004-8215
NSN 5895-01-391-5068
NSN 5855-01-364-8193
NSN 5910-00-237-5250
NSN 5895-01-522-1317
NSN 6110-00-819-4917
NSN 6130-00-458-2696
NSN 5855-00-058-1293