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 6320-01-359-3921
NSN 6105-00-499-7018
NSN 5930-00-406-4777
NSN 5990-00-554-0366
NSN 5895-01-286-7068
NSN 6130-00-022-3465
NSN 5910-01-269-6011
NSN 5985-01-241-2270
NSN 5999-01-290-4850
NSN 5985-00-094-6835
NSN 5975-01-218-2385
NSN 6685-00-724-4547