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 5895-01-435-5497
NSN 5835-01-121-2098
NSN 5990-00-760-7474
NSN 5930-00-011-8284
NSN 5985-01-018-2621
NSN 5950-01-381-7878
NSN 6645-00-816-5337
NSN 5950-00-285-6419
NSN 2925-01-397-2495
NSN 5920-01-502-5838
NSN 6610-01-434-4958
NSN 7035-00-252-7467