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 6650-01-567-1933
NSN 5990-01-200-7460
NSN 6620-01-642-7219
NSN 5915-00-617-1798
NSN 6145-00-583-9989
NSN 5945-01-088-1823
NSN 5930-00-813-6461
NSN 6650-00-439-8054
NSN 4140-01-607-5998
NSN 5960-01-321-2750
NSN 7035-01-524-4895
NSN 5895-01-381-0088