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 2925-00-979-3620
NSN 6130-00-973-7866
NSN 5998-01-400-6739
NSN 5985-00-279-4956
NSN 6620-01-517-0014
NSN 6610-00-545-5584
NSN 5895-01-032-2296
NSN 5920-01-350-1256
NSN 6145-01-051-7012
NSN 5999-00-090-7008
NSN 5950-00-306-4648
NSN 5935-01-231-3322