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 5950-01-512-2430
NSN 5905-01-085-4612
NSN 6240-00-106-9636
NSN 5965-01-591-9600
NSN 5950-01-486-2958
NSN 5985-00-277-7371
NSN 5990-01-246-7417
NSN 5998-00-323-1289
NSN 7035-00-361-5975
NSN 5960-00-912-1114
NSN 5999-00-103-2632
NSN 5960-01-006-6507