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 5960-01-553-4557
NSN 5895-01-184-7218
NSN 6110-01-487-4039
NSN 5950-01-478-0215
NSN 5835-01-054-9016
NSN 6150-01-553-3803
NSN 7035-01-392-5274
NSN 5835-00-930-8500
NSN 5895-00-654-5812
NSN 6645-01-465-1318
NSN 6320-01-453-2358
NSN 5999-00-857-1975