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 2925-01-645-2948
NSN 6320-01-166-3602
NSN 6650-00-952-2754
NSN 6105-00-670-7831
NSN 5985-00-529-9369
NSN 5945-00-814-8798
NSN 6650-01-541-5930
NSN 5835-01-202-9673
NSN 5990-00-011-2994
NSN 7035-01-313-2755
NSN 5910-01-455-2305
NSN 5985-01-446-9725