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 5960-01-408-6290
NSN 7035-01-126-6023
NSN 5925-01-177-7423
NSN 5985-01-222-2497
NSN 6135-01-379-8582
NSN 6320-01-659-2819
NSN 5950-00-784-7992
NSN 6145-00-652-9307
NSN 6645-01-028-0375
NSN 6650-00-004-3683
NSN 6110-00-089-7348
NSN 5960-00-389-2915