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 5975-00-079-0022
NSN 5910-00-053-0417
NSN 5975-01-222-9617
NSN 6620-00-914-6818
NSN 5999-00-054-5464
NSN 5945-00-737-3195
NSN 2925-00-284-1534
NSN 6220-01-227-4152
NSN 5998-01-411-6315
NSN 5960-01-558-7787
NSN 5910-00-342-4338
NSN 5998-01-144-0213