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 7035-01-023-7859
NSN 6150-00-837-2454
NSN 6105-01-180-7066
NSN 6610-01-128-7748
NSN 5915-01-490-6471
NSN 5985-00-581-8705
NSN 6150-01-642-1108
NSN 5915-00-296-7497
NSN 5990-01-559-0578
NSN 5998-01-027-5914
NSN 6130-01-188-3830
NSN 5998-00-691-6070