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 5895-01-547-2492
NSN 6135-00-593-6831
NSN 5990-01-020-6841
NSN 5999-01-287-9215
NSN 5835-00-289-9080
NSN 6610-01-555-8596
NSN 2925-01-470-5534
NSN 5965-01-003-2641
NSN 6135-01-372-6985
NSN 6240-01-212-3255
NSN 6685-00-222-8216
NSN 5925-01-265-4679