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 5905-01-031-0445
NSN 2925-00-891-9289
NSN 5965-01-120-6086
NSN 5935-00-345-6237
NSN 6105-01-184-1291
NSN 5965-00-925-1725
NSN 5999-01-502-7524
NSN 6220-01-228-9583
NSN 5835-01-416-6449
NSN 6130-01-348-8258
NSN 5985-01-014-4924
NSN 6645-01-162-8023