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 5835-00-405-4560
NSN 5999-01-372-1182
NSN 5998-01-243-3613
NSN 5985-01-475-9050
NSN 5895-01-023-6150
NSN 6685-01-145-0270
NSN 5920-01-132-0178
NSN 5910-01-608-3772
NSN 5935-01-442-8356
NSN 6150-01-145-5156
NSN 6240-01-294-8997
NSN 7035-01-644-1873