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 6320-01-493-4472
NSN 6240-00-157-3724
NSN 5960-00-758-5064
NSN 6320-00-025-9910
NSN 5975-01-052-7054
NSN 5999-01-504-8201
NSN 6145-01-146-2563
NSN 2925-01-446-6523
NSN 5985-01-488-5516
NSN 5935-01-179-8516
NSN 5985-00-411-3030
NSN 6145-01-142-9319