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 5935-01-246-2154
NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 5998-01-232-4702
NSN 5920-00-034-0940
NSN 5835-01-439-0180
NSN 7035-00-417-2967
NSN 6685-01-158-5454
NSN 6130-01-415-7595
NSN 6150-01-448-6560
NSN 5905-01-092-1877
NSN 6220-01-623-5919
NSN 5960-01-264-2087