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 5855-01-475-9446
NSN 5835-01-136-3394
NSN 6240-00-055-9519
NSN 5935-00-466-2162
NSN 6610-01-022-2474
NSN 5965-01-415-2898
NSN 6620-01-415-5803
NSN 6220-01-181-5854
NSN 5975-01-141-6883
NSN 6220-01-420-7812
NSN 5990-01-057-4191
NSN 5905-00-578-7507