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 5920-00-839-8096
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 5915-01-481-6207
NSN 5996-01-241-0634
NSN 5835-01-116-2369
NSN 6610-01-264-4888
NSN 4140-01-023-1537
NSN 5925-00-364-7969
NSN 6150-01-473-8905
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 6645-01-497-6543
NSN 5925-01-408-6577