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 5965-01-420-6613
NSN 5915-01-543-4604
NSN 5925-00-147-7452
NSN 5945-00-259-7267
NSN 5895-01-012-6561
NSN 5985-00-983-9433
NSN 5950-01-372-6758
NSN 5930-01-483-1856
NSN 5965-00-484-3966
NSN 5945-01-023-3154
NSN 5905-01-446-7167
NSN 7035-01-350-4247