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 5990-01-649-4647
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 6645-00-825-5677
NSN 6150-00-905-6070
NSN 6135-01-031-8078
NSN 6135-00-567-1322
NSN 5920-01-141-6885
NSN 5998-00-786-8120
NSN 6150-01-025-6305
NSN 6220-01-377-4957
NSN 5965-01-283-2531
NSN 6145-01-534-7113