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 6220-01-041-2194
NSN 5996-01-616-1663
NSN 5925-01-445-6112
NSN 6135-01-648-4875
NSN 5915-00-497-0238
NSN 5950-00-023-2033
NSN 6105-01-317-7282
NSN 5990-01-463-5400
NSN 6145-01-477-7800
NSN 6320-01-086-2602
NSN 5999-01-204-7809
NSN 5905-00-153-0135