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 5950-01-211-5140
NSN 6220-01-627-0038
NSN 6110-00-367-2427
NSN 6240-01-542-8886
NSN 5985-01-639-8150
NSN 5965-00-249-6980
NSN 5945-01-445-6883
NSN 5915-01-633-2641
NSN 5895-01-550-8140
NSN 7035-01-265-0216
NSN 5998-00-007-1977
NSN 6130-01-280-5113