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 5990-01-199-2846
NSN 5920-01-302-1594
NSN 5835-00-901-4932
NSN 6135-00-497-0491
NSN 6130-00-787-3024
NSN 5915-01-611-1960
NSN 5930-00-308-7411
NSN 5855-00-821-7512
NSN 2925-01-633-4048
NSN 6650-01-445-6492
NSN 5985-01-563-7129
NSN 5930-01-655-2136