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 5915-01-598-9816
NSN 4140-01-008-0559
NSN 6685-00-944-0094
NSN 5975-01-304-2050
NSN 5990-01-582-1977
NSN 5965-00-471-5018
NSN 5855-01-349-8583
NSN 5930-01-024-5784
NSN 5910-01-641-1600
NSN 5996-01-535-5586
NSN 5930-01-581-5631
NSN 5895-01-399-7679