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 5985-01-024-2998
NSN 5996-01-085-5031
NSN 2925-00-433-5429
NSN 6620-00-868-7104
NSN 5935-01-272-9592
NSN 6150-01-470-9312
NSN 5990-01-426-7350
NSN 5965-00-416-6618
NSN 2925-01-346-9522
NSN 6150-01-603-9849
NSN 5996-00-963-1352
NSN 5996-00-667-4295