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 6105-01-524-3253
NSN 6650-01-014-9299
NSN 5930-01-248-7354
NSN 5945-01-224-7610
NSN 5910-01-023-7615
NSN 5930-00-004-2123
NSN 2925-01-085-0691
NSN 6685-01-027-1168
NSN 5905-00-044-4546
NSN 6645-01-397-7277
NSN 5975-00-518-0780
NSN 5855-00-004-0904