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 5920-00-092-0712
NSN 5835-00-021-0728
NSN 5935-01-377-4311
NSN 6110-01-585-1368
NSN 5835-01-090-0784
NSN 5990-00-513-5328
NSN 5935-00-689-5677
NSN 5996-01-359-9931
NSN 6240-00-580-0666
NSN 5950-00-828-5094
NSN 6130-01-514-6303
NSN 5999-01-534-5224