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 6320-01-393-7022
NSN 5930-01-578-2247
NSN 4140-01-634-0330
NSN 7035-01-171-9052
NSN 6650-01-044-9860
NSN 5975-01-146-0947
NSN 5945-00-096-7958
NSN 6130-01-603-0415
NSN 5935-01-269-8266
NSN 6150-01-588-5906
NSN 5960-00-837-5146
NSN 5895-00-106-9206