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 6650-01-057-2596
NSN 5945-01-125-4847
NSN 6145-01-628-9214
NSN 5985-01-197-9918
NSN 6150-01-214-8691
NSN 5985-01-519-2637
NSN 6150-01-146-5021
NSN 6620-00-500-0041
NSN 5999-01-432-3377
NSN 6220-01-430-7021
NSN 5920-00-814-0002
NSN 5895-01-092-6373