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 5990-01-476-8813
NSN 2925-01-575-7376
NSN 5990-00-140-1159
NSN 5985-01-511-2992
NSN 2925-01-281-6403
NSN 6620-01-228-1571
NSN 5915-01-025-9642
NSN 6135-01-516-4638
NSN 5990-00-067-9102
NSN 5960-00-034-7925
NSN 5835-01-386-4027
NSN 5835-01-632-6627