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 5835-01-447-2544
NSN 5960-01-056-6705
NSN 6645-01-012-5972
NSN 6110-01-406-4818
NSN 5895-01-167-1023
NSN 6145-00-702-0057
NSN 6645-01-290-3930
NSN 6220-01-287-6029
NSN 6150-00-182-5306
NSN 6130-00-279-5058
NSN 5985-01-498-4610
NSN 5996-00-243-6962