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 6135-01-168-2944
NSN 5999-00-060-5300
NSN 2925-00-081-3547
NSN 5895-01-659-9267
NSN 6110-01-352-4891
NSN 4140-01-025-9699
NSN 7035-01-157-0028
NSN 5855-01-419-5285
NSN 5920-01-287-8409
NSN 4140-01-026-2725
NSN 5920-00-349-8837
NSN 6240-01-437-4936