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 5945-00-003-2489
NSN 5965-01-654-4571
NSN 5915-01-568-5427
NSN 5915-01-398-0633
NSN 4140-00-018-7690
NSN 5985-01-272-6955
NSN 5925-01-261-1677
NSN 5960-00-171-9575
NSN 5905-01-019-8444
NSN 7035-01-551-5533
NSN 5990-01-468-1292
NSN 4140-00-354-4117