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 5960-01-186-5023
NSN 6685-00-555-4198
NSN 5905-00-174-3732
NSN 5965-01-490-6704
NSN 5910-00-607-7060
NSN 5855-01-658-4510
NSN 5930-00-810-1882
NSN 5895-01-040-9661
NSN 5996-01-632-5951
NSN 5960-01-439-3731
NSN 5930-01-122-6104
NSN 5990-00-145-1187