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 5945-01-391-4999
NSN 5998-00-270-1179
NSN 6645-01-464-4937
NSN 5855-01-440-6614
NSN 5950-01-023-2007
NSN 7035-00-585-2113
NSN 5910-01-311-3070
NSN 5996-00-171-3071
NSN 6240-01-523-7392
NSN 6105-01-041-4672
NSN 5950-01-357-6515
NSN 5998-01-254-3734