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 5930-01-462-3044
NSN 5960-00-166-3008
NSN 6220-01-028-0329
NSN 6145-01-216-4056
NSN 6620-01-024-7003
NSN 5895-00-776-6079
NSN 6220-00-719-7714
NSN 5925-01-140-9018
NSN 6645-01-058-3817
NSN 5998-01-300-0895
NSN 6130-01-364-0340
NSN 6610-00-948-7181