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 7035-01-432-2424
NSN 6240-01-388-2261
NSN 5910-01-378-7026
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5960-01-544-1273
NSN 5945-01-441-9370
NSN 6320-01-426-8947
NSN 5950-00-813-1027
NSN 5930-01-103-0488
NSN 6105-00-400-7251
NSN 5975-01-337-5658
NSN 5920-01-060-3177