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 5965-00-372-2537
NSN 5990-00-020-1048
NSN 5910-01-456-5232
NSN 5999-00-700-0602
NSN 5975-00-461-7490
NSN 5996-00-343-9341
NSN 5996-00-389-0065
NSN 5965-00-964-1756
NSN 5855-00-310-2740
NSN 6685-01-465-8638
NSN 6610-01-649-5326
NSN 5950-01-587-7718