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 5965-00-408-5501
NSN 7035-00-079-7189
NSN 5999-01-536-3560
NSN 5990-01-243-4233
NSN 5960-00-877-8016
NSN 5920-01-442-4937
NSN 6650-01-545-5672
NSN 5996-01-025-5683
NSN 5855-00-791-5000
NSN 5999-01-372-5008
NSN 5965-00-486-7907
NSN 5996-00-249-6091