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 5965-01-364-7275
NSN 5920-01-257-0062
NSN 5920-01-561-7212
NSN 6145-00-570-0516
NSN 6320-01-585-8468
NSN 5945-00-581-1381
NSN 5985-01-528-8377
NSN 5925-01-145-5330
NSN 5950-01-451-4538
NSN 5998-01-083-8761
NSN 5920-01-104-6198
NSN 5965-01-038-1904