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 6650-01-151-6450
NSN 5996-01-353-8015
NSN 6130-01-359-5032
NSN 6150-00-833-5004
NSN 5915-01-160-6271
NSN 5835-01-023-8733
NSN 5835-01-084-6997
NSN 6135-01-435-6503
NSN 5895-00-461-8837
NSN 4140-00-740-2153
NSN 4140-01-506-3431
NSN 5895-01-584-5946