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 4140-00-508-3206
NSN 5999-00-453-5346
NSN 5965-00-825-4871
NSN 5945-01-113-8277
NSN 5965-00-871-8987
NSN 2925-01-628-6351
NSN 6135-00-935-5241
NSN 6110-01-018-1378
NSN 5920-00-422-0757
NSN 5935-01-602-3019
NSN 5960-01-099-7808
NSN 5855-01-385-6586