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 5935-01-575-8564
NSN 5965-01-038-3709
NSN 5905-01-183-6968
NSN 5975-00-538-7957
NSN 6620-01-391-3507
NSN 5925-01-176-5048
NSN 5996-01-091-4836
NSN 2925-01-338-7126
NSN 5960-01-469-2006
NSN 5945-01-444-7979
NSN 5985-00-670-5660
NSN 5930-00-452-1258