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 6110-01-499-1074
NSN 5990-01-612-5323
NSN 5895-01-024-9573
NSN 6135-01-514-2668
NSN 5930-00-205-7204
NSN 5998-00-901-2577
NSN 2925-00-495-8130
NSN 5950-00-028-4118
NSN 6650-01-327-5113
NSN 5910-01-505-4719
NSN 2925-00-081-3547
NSN 5935-01-199-5581