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 2925-00-156-4495
NSN 6105-00-907-6014
NSN 5950-00-768-2706
NSN 6220-01-060-3336
NSN 5950-00-096-7706
NSN 6105-00-274-5460
NSN 5925-01-141-5429
NSN 6135-01-556-3352
NSN 6150-01-175-6187
NSN 5996-01-188-7548
NSN 6145-01-302-6023
NSN 6130-01-565-0284