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 5950-01-059-9821
NSN 6650-00-005-8572
NSN 6220-01-608-3797
NSN 5998-01-263-1489
NSN 6220-00-858-4831
NSN 5950-01-024-9461
NSN 5996-00-999-7047
NSN 5950-00-263-6586
NSN 4140-01-319-3486
NSN 7035-01-138-5781
NSN 5905-01-139-0628
NSN 5985-01-106-2477