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 5998-01-094-1064
NSN 5915-01-025-1362
NSN 5985-01-442-6347
NSN 5965-01-275-5472
NSN 5950-01-329-8793
NSN 5998-00-647-1225
NSN 5835-01-150-6084
NSN 6220-01-182-1083
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 5925-01-097-2559
NSN 7035-00-166-0339
NSN 5998-00-500-8364