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 6685-01-022-1699
NSN 5998-00-520-5501
NSN 6110-01-468-0428
NSN 5910-00-069-7598
NSN 5965-01-101-2187
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 5835-01-281-7281
NSN 6650-01-024-1067
NSN 5998-01-594-6152
NSN 6105-00-079-0863
NSN 6320-01-512-2031
NSN 7035-01-230-0250