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 5990-00-436-9008
NSN 5950-01-480-4232
NSN 5935-01-323-4918
NSN 5905-01-222-4113
NSN 5998-01-451-0346
NSN 5950-01-076-5464
NSN 6110-00-557-8631
NSN 5905-01-223-9782
NSN 5935-01-611-9769
NSN 5960-01-192-7710
NSN 5950-01-501-5682
NSN 6240-00-732-4240