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 5895-00-832-5747
NSN 6650-00-985-5332
NSN 6130-00-422-0011
NSN 5925-01-023-2996
NSN 5990-01-361-0846
NSN 6320-01-201-2776
NSN 5945-01-323-8672
NSN 5920-01-065-9148
NSN 5925-00-401-7767
NSN 5910-01-434-2550
NSN 6220-01-567-6624
NSN 5835-00-550-7728