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 6105-00-273-1106
NSN 5990-01-287-9447
NSN 6620-00-506-0112
NSN 5910-00-540-7662
NSN 5920-01-120-5093
NSN 5910-01-137-8150
NSN 6105-01-389-8580
NSN 6150-00-025-0612
NSN 5985-01-289-8290
NSN 5950-01-336-7708
NSN 5925-00-636-5683
NSN 6685-01-115-8958