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 5960-01-474-4843
NSN 6650-01-381-7172
NSN 6240-01-238-1681
NSN 5855-01-511-2614
NSN 5998-01-573-7285
NSN 5998-01-582-6894
NSN 6685-00-422-2203
NSN 5975-01-240-2432
NSN 5965-01-537-0023
NSN 5965-01-069-5650
NSN 5935-01-391-5298
NSN 7035-01-177-2807