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 6220-01-236-2785
NSN 6650-00-724-8258
NSN 5985-01-527-1958
NSN 6145-01-412-7517
NSN 5855-00-316-5050
NSN 5910-00-103-6293
NSN 5990-00-816-9289
NSN 4140-01-411-6666
NSN 5965-01-280-3772
NSN 6645-01-357-1393
NSN 6320-00-994-0179
NSN 6685-01-450-3285