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 6320-01-462-3555
NSN 6145-00-496-2020
NSN 5910-01-013-8313
NSN 6145-01-273-0077
NSN 5920-01-063-7799
NSN 2925-01-185-9144
NSN 5895-01-547-7022
NSN 6145-00-941-2357
NSN 5975-00-961-9793
NSN 5950-01-424-5533
NSN 5915-00-633-1217
NSN 5950-00-491-1465