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 5910-00-353-0925
NSN 5965-00-194-9428
NSN 5930-01-368-7382
NSN 5935-01-291-1133
NSN 5960-01-443-3067
NSN 5835-01-532-5948
NSN 5915-01-451-4332
NSN 5985-01-378-7553
NSN 4140-00-710-5660
NSN 5975-01-387-3050
NSN 6135-00-921-6487
NSN 5996-01-466-4577