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 5910-01-544-4410
NSN 6150-01-371-3023
NSN 4140-01-031-0286
NSN 5915-01-023-7671
NSN 6220-01-617-2666
NSN 5998-00-013-6913
NSN 5835-01-535-0948
NSN 6150-01-327-7077
NSN 5910-01-374-1101
NSN 5945-00-894-7042
NSN 5945-01-437-7657
NSN 5915-01-044-9829