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 6620-00-250-1980
NSN 2925-01-437-9041
NSN 5935-00-170-6519
NSN 5855-01-087-1417
NSN 5930-01-023-7293
NSN 6145-00-971-2431
NSN 5905-00-243-9520
NSN 6610-01-207-0045
NSN 5835-01-466-5496
NSN 6620-01-624-3933
NSN 6610-01-443-5291
NSN 5990-01-164-8673