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 4140-01-023-1537
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 5965-01-104-5102
NSN 6620-01-359-3920
NSN 6150-01-099-9619
NSN 5930-01-537-7000
NSN 5935-01-519-2522
NSN 5910-01-171-9405
NSN 6130-01-128-5909
NSN 5915-01-513-6786
NSN 5985-00-924-1764
NSN 5905-01-058-1496