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 5965-01-425-2039
NSN 6135-01-061-1862
NSN 6645-01-062-0905
NSN 6135-01-079-7852
NSN 5930-00-503-0816
NSN 6220-01-603-7293
NSN 5950-00-967-1719
NSN 2925-00-684-7708
NSN 5835-00-568-2956
NSN 6105-00-937-5788
NSN 6620-01-207-0047
NSN 2925-01-360-3575