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 5996-01-462-8966
NSN 5950-01-320-8691
NSN 5930-01-558-5496
NSN 6320-00-108-7049
NSN 5905-01-555-8077
NSN 5960-01-142-1995
NSN 6220-00-255-5652
NSN 5996-00-114-0021
NSN 5998-01-437-6693
NSN 5855-01-158-2709
NSN 4140-01-093-5301
NSN 5950-01-398-2160