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 6320-01-119-3935
NSN 5998-00-650-8148
NSN 7035-01-024-9511
NSN 5905-01-618-5788
NSN 6650-00-710-8130
NSN 2925-00-631-0548
NSN 6110-00-989-2456
NSN 6145-00-454-0566
NSN 6685-01-423-9681
NSN 6110-01-210-2454
NSN 5855-01-038-2189
NSN 5999-01-046-8294