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 5925-00-284-3726
NSN 7035-01-645-8589
NSN 6320-01-494-8560
NSN 6150-01-138-2462
NSN 5950-01-023-8321
NSN 5945-01-471-8074
NSN 6220-01-114-7420
NSN 5998-01-647-8112
NSN 5925-01-342-3502
NSN 5910-01-024-9571
NSN 6650-00-253-9195
NSN 6145-01-398-7451