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 6145-00-398-4405
NSN 6220-00-020-5028
NSN 5925-01-435-4409
NSN 6145-00-378-3836
NSN 5985-01-600-2276
NSN 5915-01-148-5271
NSN 6610-01-614-7191
NSN 6145-01-424-1351
NSN 5999-00-468-3084
NSN 5835-00-286-5432
NSN 6150-00-407-5787
NSN 6320-01-114-6054