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 5960-01-019-4920
NSN 5835-01-412-0344
NSN 6105-00-873-0244
NSN 5950-01-065-0491
NSN 5985-00-650-0504
NSN 5920-01-447-2225
NSN 6320-01-362-9518
NSN 5950-01-649-1289
NSN 5990-01-658-9964
NSN 6130-00-482-7440
NSN 5915-01-040-6772
NSN 5998-01-421-9699