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 6645-00-295-0625
NSN 5920-01-158-4517
NSN 5930-01-601-2506
NSN 6105-01-340-9307
NSN 5915-01-255-1999
NSN 6240-01-381-2036
NSN 5835-01-193-6192
NSN 6150-00-596-9882
NSN 6610-00-136-8203
NSN 5910-01-389-1885
NSN 6105-01-224-5510
NSN 5905-01-105-8481