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 6130-01-394-3426
NSN 5999-00-582-0354
NSN 5915-00-516-9987
NSN 5965-00-942-1602
NSN 4140-01-652-5868
NSN 5920-01-441-2481
NSN 6145-01-151-2823
NSN 5925-01-281-6507
NSN 5915-00-998-4573
NSN 5910-00-087-4024
NSN 5930-00-607-4308
NSN 5975-01-607-0449