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 5950-00-067-7508
NSN 5935-01-262-4472
NSN 6650-01-357-3579
NSN 6220-01-067-6690
NSN 5975-00-178-0795
NSN 5895-00-814-8462
NSN 5910-00-190-9691
NSN 6150-01-376-5827
NSN 6610-01-538-4660
NSN 5935-01-025-5111
NSN 5835-01-227-2318
NSN 5999-01-072-8076