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 5998-01-436-9024
NSN 5999-01-232-9169
NSN 5999-01-227-6515
NSN 6610-01-629-4140
NSN 5996-00-711-7962
NSN 6135-01-041-3829
NSN 5965-00-055-8013
NSN 5905-00-201-8133
NSN 6150-00-980-6875
NSN 5945-01-005-0328
NSN 6645-01-455-1293
NSN 5965-00-964-1756