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 6620-01-470-3854
NSN 6620-00-793-7733
NSN 5905-00-779-9817
NSN 5985-01-228-8468
NSN 5945-01-432-3216
NSN 6150-01-558-2165
NSN 6620-01-606-4138
NSN 6130-01-440-4679
NSN 6145-01-023-3135
NSN 4140-01-263-6435
NSN 5965-01-359-5501
NSN 5999-01-529-9689