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 6650-01-068-3687
NSN 5960-01-241-9078
NSN 5999-01-238-0926
NSN 5965-01-649-2978
NSN 6130-00-931-4247
NSN 5835-01-414-3258
NSN 4140-00-611-8020
NSN 2925-00-474-4990
NSN 5915-00-626-8238
NSN 5855-01-320-7640
NSN 6220-00-227-0528
NSN 6610-01-224-7675