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 2925-01-337-2508
NSN 6650-01-616-3403
NSN 5960-00-620-7233
NSN 6650-01-522-3637
NSN 6645-01-367-2581
NSN 5930-01-107-5233
NSN 5895-00-650-4778
NSN 5985-01-481-3397
NSN 6240-01-623-3798
NSN 6650-00-518-5194
NSN 5835-01-412-0344
NSN 5960-01-170-4057