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 6650-01-039-4795
NSN 6650-00-316-4889
NSN 5925-01-354-9726
NSN 6105-01-253-3481
NSN 6240-01-574-0354
NSN 5915-00-803-5396
NSN 6135-00-016-0071
NSN 4140-00-945-4055
NSN 6685-01-203-4381
NSN 6650-01-098-0288
NSN 6610-01-285-8444
NSN 5990-01-193-0487