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 5975-01-461-2021
NSN 6650-01-333-1770
NSN 5905-00-538-5803
NSN 6620-00-836-0399
NSN 6150-01-580-7989
NSN 5965-00-823-8623
NSN 5945-01-353-5259
NSN 5835-01-642-4705
NSN 6620-00-010-8190
NSN 6110-00-628-3583
NSN 6110-00-027-1351
NSN 6645-01-178-4936