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 5985-01-332-9117
NSN 5996-00-207-6086
NSN 5855-01-547-6918
NSN 5975-01-120-7047
NSN 5990-01-089-9694
NSN 5990-01-565-2226
NSN 5950-01-040-7844
NSN 5998-01-225-3801
NSN 5975-01-037-1550
NSN 7035-00-834-2090
NSN 5905-00-965-6230
NSN 5895-01-553-2107