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 5996-01-024-8898
NSN 5999-00-666-3838
NSN 5835-00-257-2852
NSN 6110-01-168-8600
NSN 5996-01-511-6126
NSN 6650-00-170-5095
NSN 6650-01-247-3435
NSN 5960-01-449-1310
NSN 6685-01-207-3358
NSN 5960-01-030-3191
NSN 6105-00-904-3327
NSN 5905-01-145-2812