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 5998-00-079-0036
NSN 6685-00-451-6941
NSN 5945-01-512-6633
NSN 6685-01-349-0466
NSN 5999-01-412-4802
NSN 6135-01-317-6021
NSN 5999-01-442-4357
NSN 5935-01-452-9462
NSN 6110-01-489-5482
NSN 5905-01-187-8840
NSN 6650-00-500-6455
NSN 5985-01-317-3143