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 5998-01-067-9065
NSN 5985-01-020-1129
NSN 5905-00-597-4124
NSN 5990-00-070-0538
NSN 5996-01-287-0656
NSN 5895-01-274-7460
NSN 5975-01-571-8507
NSN 6685-01-131-4694
NSN 2925-00-124-5465
NSN 5960-00-024-0633
NSN 6150-01-625-8952
NSN 5985-01-382-0001