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 5935-01-542-6899
NSN 5990-00-754-2842
NSN 6145-01-523-1182
NSN 5835-01-392-7683
NSN 6610-00-925-0935
NSN 5945-01-398-5526
NSN 6110-01-088-2988
NSN 5915-00-106-3845
NSN 5945-00-186-5069
NSN 6130-00-726-4509
NSN 6145-01-642-3080
NSN 5998-00-024-7370