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 6610-01-473-5678
NSN 2925-01-204-6243
NSN 6610-00-893-0893
NSN 6150-00-054-3189
NSN 6110-00-822-1291
NSN 5945-00-681-0026
NSN 5950-01-022-7168
NSN 6130-01-502-6729
NSN 6145-01-580-1025
NSN 6220-01-175-1246
NSN 5990-01-333-8678
NSN 6130-01-207-6137