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 5935-01-545-5189
NSN 5990-00-422-2093
NSN 6645-01-354-7352
NSN 6650-01-125-4989
NSN 5855-00-869-3635
NSN 6645-00-470-5310
NSN 6650-01-461-7713
NSN 5996-01-260-6638
NSN 5910-01-247-4022
NSN 5960-01-641-5493
NSN 7035-00-763-6180
NSN 5835-01-106-1456