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 5985-00-597-2966
NSN 5935-01-237-7343
NSN 5910-01-591-5097
NSN 5945-01-051-4024
NSN 5935-01-199-4144
NSN 6150-00-670-5772
NSN 6240-01-550-8991
NSN 5855-01-492-5666
NSN 6685-01-561-0572
NSN 5999-01-540-9969
NSN 5935-01-112-4491
NSN 5999-01-614-5906