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 2925-01-317-4543
NSN 5910-00-578-1864
NSN 5985-01-198-4275
NSN 6650-01-472-6896
NSN 5999-01-476-7325
NSN 5930-01-430-4022
NSN 6110-01-051-9842
NSN 6130-00-492-9473
NSN 6620-01-157-6954
NSN 5925-01-321-2451
NSN 5855-00-869-3635
NSN 5905-01-558-6705