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 2925-00-416-2894
NSN 5990-00-309-0023
NSN 5925-00-389-6433
NSN 6145-01-030-3400
NSN 5999-00-783-8003
NSN 5835-00-711-3371
NSN 6320-01-129-9656
NSN 6220-01-005-2134
NSN 5930-01-095-7793
NSN 5975-01-623-2785
NSN 5915-01-253-5743
NSN 5996-01-493-6740