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 5925-01-103-3024
NSN 5999-01-383-7795
NSN 5999-01-076-2758
NSN 6105-00-275-0826
NSN 5999-01-158-9129
NSN 5915-00-239-5208
NSN 5905-01-520-9751
NSN 6130-00-373-1757
NSN 5920-01-329-2598
NSN 5999-01-043-5652
NSN 5855-00-145-3307
NSN 4140-00-751-1694