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 5965-01-164-0561
NSN 6620-01-577-6285
NSN 5835-01-214-5402
NSN 5905-00-188-7984
NSN 5990-00-067-6791
NSN 5985-01-337-3591
NSN 5998-01-447-3256
NSN 5975-01-044-6002
NSN 6620-01-503-2667
NSN 5950-00-024-9964
NSN 5990-00-226-1152
NSN 5930-00-009-2020