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 6145-00-232-0813
NSN 5965-01-064-4403
NSN 5930-01-279-1719
NSN 5965-01-250-5768
NSN 5910-01-444-1429
NSN 5999-00-216-8850
NSN 6105-01-467-8915
NSN 6650-00-182-7791
NSN 5945-01-051-2598
NSN 5905-01-297-3098
NSN 5975-01-370-2462
NSN 6320-01-021-6633