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 6650-01-424-3947
NSN 6685-01-025-1587
NSN 5996-01-328-8706
NSN 5985-00-126-1104
NSN 6145-00-735-1799
NSN 2925-00-087-2465
NSN 5975-01-194-1237
NSN 5985-00-411-1704
NSN 6130-01-096-5265
NSN 6105-01-186-9869
NSN 7035-00-215-3272
NSN 6610-00-184-0833