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 5996-01-607-5845
NSN 5965-01-433-0366
NSN 2925-00-440-1855
NSN 6685-01-537-0829
NSN 5915-01-554-8040
NSN 5925-01-558-7630
NSN 5960-00-172-7889
NSN 5835-00-289-9080
NSN 5990-01-088-5293
NSN 6610-01-276-7766
NSN 6620-01-178-4771
NSN 6110-01-446-5336