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 5895-01-268-2158
NSN 5999-01-152-3917
NSN 6110-01-438-5786
NSN 6320-01-498-4954
NSN 6110-01-303-0839
NSN 5975-01-360-3153
NSN 6240-00-892-4420
NSN 5920-01-473-9286
NSN 5920-01-257-0062
NSN 5835-01-220-6024
NSN 5985-01-435-3351
NSN 6150-01-463-9915