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 5996-01-103-6567
NSN 4140-00-781-4022
NSN 4140-00-203-4844
NSN 6105-01-440-9860
NSN 5965-01-005-0341
NSN 5855-01-423-7473
NSN 5999-01-434-7877
NSN 5935-01-189-6030
NSN 5985-01-004-7676
NSN 5996-00-781-8993
NSN 5915-00-871-6520
NSN 5965-01-419-0476