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 5990-00-838-1082
NSN 5965-01-083-5278
NSN 5960-00-129-6660
NSN 5925-00-336-1992
NSN 6240-01-220-6066
NSN 5998-01-519-9273
NSN 5960-01-193-5224
NSN 5999-01-017-3738
NSN 6645-00-864-6794
NSN 5975-01-096-5109
NSN 5915-00-178-1574
NSN 6685-00-581-9329