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 5910-01-388-1146
NSN 5996-00-988-3887
NSN 5998-01-605-8475
NSN 6110-01-381-6951
NSN 5996-00-593-3751
NSN 7035-00-922-5700
NSN 6620-01-381-6225
NSN 5999-01-066-2281
NSN 6650-00-758-4763
NSN 5975-00-320-8962
NSN 5895-00-111-1560
NSN 5945-00-021-6996