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 6685-01-323-9430
NSN 5965-01-569-0074
NSN 5925-00-192-3217
NSN 5935-00-353-2147
NSN 5905-01-150-9475
NSN 5855-01-508-6917
NSN 7035-00-679-9027
NSN 5960-00-086-8764
NSN 5895-01-231-4974
NSN 4140-00-908-2763
NSN 5975-01-023-1592
NSN 5930-00-250-7879