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 5835-01-022-6362
NSN 5855-00-281-3843
NSN 6240-01-328-6352
NSN 5930-01-154-2641
NSN 7035-01-183-7550
NSN 6150-01-642-7648
NSN 6240-01-110-6235
NSN 6130-00-273-1111
NSN 5950-01-051-0124
NSN 6135-01-156-4627
NSN 6650-00-159-7117
NSN 5925-00-086-5165