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 6105-01-589-9754
NSN 5920-01-284-7306
NSN 5965-00-959-8162
NSN 7035-01-024-9511
NSN 6645-01-467-9983
NSN 5965-01-474-8265
NSN 5975-01-385-2241
NSN 5996-01-437-6577
NSN 5965-00-035-4556
NSN 5925-00-576-8179
NSN 5985-01-623-1745
NSN 5975-00-099-6615