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 5990-01-626-2818
NSN 2925-01-397-2495
NSN 6610-00-732-2488
NSN 6105-01-054-1397
NSN 5915-00-111-0521
NSN 5910-00-413-1335
NSN 7035-01-403-2841
NSN 5960-01-389-9941
NSN 5996-00-467-4196
NSN 5895-00-021-4861
NSN 5965-01-354-4387
NSN 6105-01-068-3045