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 5945-01-324-1169
NSN 5945-01-463-8443
NSN 5975-00-908-8814
NSN 7035-01-213-5590
NSN 6320-01-206-7926
NSN 5935-01-310-8616
NSN 5935-00-287-9898
NSN 5915-01-391-6285
NSN 6685-01-421-4403
NSN 5920-01-512-1665
NSN 6610-00-611-8635
NSN 4140-00-166-8023