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 6135-01-396-4900
NSN 5998-01-451-3735
NSN 7035-01-571-8784
NSN 5835-01-281-7281
NSN 4140-01-480-4319
NSN 6320-01-145-2742
NSN 5975-00-113-4710
NSN 6150-01-364-1023
NSN 5985-01-476-3138
NSN 6610-01-215-4857
NSN 6105-00-988-2471
NSN 6650-00-466-1697