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 6320-01-470-6826
NSN 6135-01-487-6275
NSN 5996-01-113-7960
NSN 5910-01-391-7180
NSN 6685-01-052-3118
NSN 5915-00-056-3972
NSN 5996-00-155-4586
NSN 6145-00-663-6133
NSN 6645-01-461-9250
NSN 5935-01-423-7276
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6320-00-731-6134