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 5975-01-456-8660
NSN 6110-01-164-7693
NSN 6650-00-473-1259
NSN 5905-01-322-7983
NSN 5998-00-682-6219
NSN 2925-01-219-9471
NSN 5999-01-483-2488
NSN 6110-01-657-6088
NSN 5985-01-499-4898
NSN 6645-00-144-4868
NSN 5996-01-116-3404
NSN 5925-00-911-8807