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 5960-00-935-6484
NSN 5945-00-548-8818
NSN 5915-01-214-0417
NSN 5915-01-577-8387
NSN 5945-01-057-4637
NSN 5895-01-265-5147
NSN 5920-01-199-5522
NSN 5965-01-585-0165
NSN 5855-01-138-4985
NSN 5855-01-606-3745
NSN 6240-01-418-5021
NSN 7035-01-512-8096