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 5965-01-446-6945
NSN 5925-01-360-7009
NSN 6610-01-344-0972
NSN 5910-00-275-7938
NSN 5975-01-025-9990
NSN 5920-00-161-4564
NSN 5960-01-387-5290
NSN 6145-01-301-7908
NSN 6150-01-417-2164
NSN 5895-01-468-7298
NSN 5975-01-591-7676
NSN 6130-00-776-0157