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 5930-01-521-3881
NSN 6650-01-367-2949
NSN 5855-01-147-6024
NSN 4140-01-548-3560
NSN 5985-01-646-1855
NSN 5990-01-320-1412
NSN 5998-01-616-4481
NSN 6150-01-560-7402
NSN 5910-00-148-0019
NSN 6685-00-155-9215
NSN 5998-00-332-9558
NSN 6650-01-170-1287