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 6220-01-114-4688
NSN 5835-00-170-5238
NSN 6135-01-462-0731
NSN 6135-00-284-1406
NSN 5835-00-986-5985
NSN 5920-01-501-2649
NSN 6240-00-071-1280
NSN 5945-00-159-1567
NSN 5930-00-644-9537
NSN 4140-01-023-1537
NSN 5895-00-104-8294
NSN 5905-00-737-8560