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 5960-00-469-1126
NSN 5855-00-129-6055
NSN 5930-01-558-8851
NSN 6685-01-305-0021
NSN 6130-01-191-0305
NSN 2925-01-432-8452
NSN 5910-00-840-5803
NSN 5996-00-624-4110
NSN 6320-01-353-9753
NSN 6645-00-674-9728
NSN 7035-01-104-5446
NSN 6110-00-805-8865