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 5998-01-188-7217
NSN 6130-01-494-6782
NSN 6650-00-210-4399
NSN 5905-01-038-9522
NSN 6620-01-195-4602
NSN 5895-00-722-1084
NSN 6685-00-273-7017
NSN 5855-00-908-9314
NSN 5855-00-089-3974
NSN 5945-00-977-7842
NSN 5945-01-181-0026
NSN 6240-00-832-6867