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 5998-01-080-4935
NSN 5945-01-559-7795
NSN 6685-01-152-1212
NSN 6650-00-563-3880
NSN 5895-01-217-0991
NSN 5930-01-573-4672
NSN 5965-01-020-4104
NSN 5990-01-116-2181
NSN 5935-01-384-3727
NSN 5985-01-476-4095
NSN 5855-01-175-3990
NSN 5960-00-461-3033