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 5975-01-286-6768
NSN 5915-01-367-2056
NSN 6130-01-045-2324
NSN 5910-01-148-9127
NSN 5985-01-004-6021
NSN 5905-00-301-5809
NSN 5960-00-446-5040
NSN 6110-01-171-7348
NSN 6130-01-496-2584
NSN 5930-00-342-7467
NSN 6240-01-346-0602
NSN 5930-01-180-9062