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 5990-01-568-5565
NSN 5905-00-844-1628
NSN 6145-00-233-6010
NSN 5905-01-439-2373
NSN 6620-01-623-7266
NSN 5985-01-525-9925
NSN 6645-01-594-1439
NSN 6610-01-483-0322
NSN 6110-00-231-3751
NSN 6610-01-131-5714
NSN 6320-01-574-1915
NSN 5965-01-298-6313