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 5990-01-487-0871
NSN 6105-00-628-9822
NSN 5935-00-007-0662
NSN 5960-01-132-2975
NSN 6645-00-925-2887
NSN 5950-01-561-6177
NSN 6645-01-526-0379
NSN 5996-01-023-8370
NSN 6320-01-277-5793
NSN 5965-01-351-4615
NSN 5915-00-941-4721
NSN 5920-01-421-4930