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 5998-01-459-8710
NSN 5920-00-555-1877
NSN 4140-01-245-8866
NSN 6150-01-023-1516
NSN 5855-01-505-0061
NSN 6610-01-227-0364
NSN 7035-00-902-8995
NSN 5960-01-328-8248
NSN 5920-00-341-6340
NSN 5965-01-429-0881
NSN 6240-01-609-4783
NSN 5920-01-657-0656