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 6145-01-282-1596
NSN 5999-01-022-0776
NSN 5975-00-236-0841
NSN 5855-01-203-4719
NSN 5915-00-011-1612
NSN 6685-01-483-4819
NSN 6240-01-045-3820
NSN 6240-01-494-3695
NSN 5945-01-107-1042
NSN 5935-01-541-6199
NSN 6645-00-515-4849
NSN 5990-00-912-9166