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 6145-01-444-8956
NSN 5975-01-215-1205
NSN 5950-01-394-4343
NSN 5990-01-408-6554
NSN 5895-01-051-2212
NSN 5895-01-146-3907
NSN 5975-01-140-8280
NSN 5990-01-081-3845
NSN 5960-01-395-1164
NSN 5975-01-430-2459
NSN 5920-01-552-0315
NSN 5960-01-512-0233