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 5965-01-360-6568
NSN 5925-01-138-4954
NSN 5855-01-023-3727
NSN 5910-01-158-2372
NSN 5835-00-289-9080
NSN 5835-00-949-3018
NSN 6220-00-466-2681
NSN 5910-01-361-8623
NSN 6685-00-017-8258
NSN 5915-01-056-2215
NSN 5996-01-530-1894
NSN 5915-01-268-8037