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 5905-01-550-6826
NSN 5930-00-410-0440
NSN 6130-01-310-1453
NSN 5996-00-734-5364
NSN 6135-01-342-3859
NSN 5855-00-256-5562
NSN 2925-00-233-5644
NSN 6610-01-501-2024
NSN 6110-00-139-5693
NSN 5999-00-513-2862
NSN 5935-01-559-7010
NSN 5920-00-391-6252