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 5925-00-384-8023
NSN 5895-01-649-8845
NSN 5920-01-028-6492
NSN 6650-01-025-7425
NSN 5915-00-086-9336
NSN 5915-01-555-0034
NSN 5920-01-345-0986
NSN 7035-01-407-6413
NSN 5895-01-076-7144
NSN 6645-01-147-5579
NSN 4140-01-010-4305
NSN 5950-00-206-3213