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 5910-01-319-9893
NSN 6220-01-171-0713
NSN 5996-01-293-9220
NSN 6320-00-994-0179
NSN 5945-00-034-2084
NSN 5945-00-314-4554
NSN 4140-01-313-3733
NSN 6145-01-025-0353
NSN 5999-00-081-5567
NSN 5920-00-443-4653
NSN 5920-01-492-9173
NSN 5835-01-632-6627