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 7035-01-019-5729
NSN 5998-00-398-0021
NSN 5855-01-536-7857
NSN 6145-00-462-2364
NSN 5985-01-452-0383
NSN 5835-01-589-4735
NSN 5910-01-319-9892
NSN 5965-01-621-8547
NSN 5925-00-251-3283
NSN 5960-01-506-5854
NSN 6150-00-528-4175
NSN 6645-01-025-1002