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 5935-01-023-8067
NSN 5960-01-370-4285
NSN 5935-00-129-3211
NSN 5925-01-227-3736
NSN 6145-00-694-5319
NSN 5985-01-511-8580
NSN 6145-01-089-9230
NSN 6110-01-649-9467
NSN 6150-00-990-0462
NSN 5990-01-531-5962
NSN 6130-01-421-1539
NSN 5930-01-392-1046