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 6135-01-519-7879
NSN 5855-00-127-5559
NSN 6320-00-295-2854
NSN 6240-01-157-5154
NSN 5895-01-598-1880
NSN 5835-01-328-3566
NSN 5985-01-196-3748
NSN 5965-01-392-1761
NSN 5925-01-444-9197
NSN 5945-01-144-9066
NSN 6320-00-343-1798
NSN 5996-01-116-1024