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 5945-01-401-5323
NSN 7035-01-029-7221
NSN 5950-01-334-1284
NSN 2925-00-601-9021
NSN 5935-01-242-1295
NSN 5905-01-065-2449
NSN 5855-01-369-5037
NSN 5990-01-238-1975
NSN 5930-01-461-6308
NSN 6130-01-245-3096
NSN 5910-00-629-8345
NSN 5996-01-306-4529