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 5835-00-412-8073
NSN 5985-01-605-5512
NSN 5990-01-128-3758
NSN 5965-01-498-4451
NSN 5905-00-724-6049
NSN 5935-00-236-0096
NSN 5999-01-571-7626
NSN 5998-01-200-2050
NSN 5835-00-074-3700
NSN 6110-01-619-8340
NSN 5925-00-840-7058
NSN 6130-01-475-7021