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 2925-01-320-6512
NSN 2925-01-238-9974
NSN 6240-01-613-7824
NSN 5999-01-160-3067
NSN 5990-01-313-5543
NSN 5905-01-461-2144
NSN 5920-01-604-9426
NSN 5915-01-434-8846
NSN 5999-01-132-0764
NSN 6685-00-276-9889
NSN 6150-00-968-7746
NSN 5950-00-661-2612