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 6685-00-152-3982
NSN 6240-01-463-8276
NSN 6105-01-125-2358
NSN 5960-00-759-2534
NSN 6105-01-516-3392
NSN 5905-00-894-9976
NSN 5935-01-120-1228
NSN 6105-00-334-9178
NSN 5975-01-165-4764
NSN 5910-01-595-4959
NSN 7035-01-295-1609
NSN 5915-01-027-0163