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 5965-01-546-2939
NSN 4140-01-157-5852
NSN 6220-01-623-1883
NSN 5950-01-069-4880
NSN 6150-00-026-7902
NSN 5998-00-052-4024
NSN 5960-01-142-1995
NSN 5905-01-253-7293
NSN 5895-01-512-8827
NSN 5915-01-173-2904
NSN 5835-01-069-2359
NSN 5960-01-567-1096