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 6645-00-867-0400
NSN 5990-00-752-2126
NSN 5996-01-081-9015
NSN 5895-00-318-1502
NSN 5950-01-246-5805
NSN 5990-00-206-3753
NSN 5945-01-534-5781
NSN 2925-01-069-5324
NSN 5998-00-093-0582
NSN 5855-00-221-9435
NSN 6645-00-971-2023
NSN 4140-00-913-6072