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 6150-01-555-4672
NSN 6685-00-843-7748
NSN 2925-00-326-0539
NSN 6685-00-960-7667
NSN 6220-01-456-0469
NSN 5895-01-394-4348
NSN 5920-00-889-6064
NSN 5950-01-310-9369
NSN 4140-01-077-7555
NSN 5855-00-937-1897
NSN 5965-01-103-2711
NSN 5905-00-043-0382