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 6610-01-512-2025
NSN 6650-01-345-4306
NSN 6320-01-397-9995
NSN 5960-01-335-5238
NSN 6685-00-683-9919
NSN 5915-01-181-9946
NSN 5945-01-298-2068
NSN 6650-00-973-9533
NSN 5990-01-328-8225
NSN 6610-01-514-7755
NSN 6240-01-184-6831
NSN 5999-01-401-5322