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 5950-01-468-5431
NSN 5895-00-089-9208
NSN 5935-00-476-9936
NSN 5905-01-553-5157
NSN 5855-00-427-7848
NSN 5910-01-336-3119
NSN 5996-01-009-0428
NSN 5965-01-627-3195
NSN 6645-01-486-7029
NSN 5910-01-393-0754
NSN 7035-01-657-4764
NSN 4140-00-022-2893