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 5895-01-503-8110
NSN 5925-01-242-3527
NSN 5930-01-047-5343
NSN 6240-00-838-0157
NSN 6145-00-882-0577
NSN 6240-01-374-7116
NSN 6110-00-267-7422
NSN 5895-01-562-7119
NSN 6645-01-103-8449
NSN 5945-01-509-6010
NSN 6685-01-022-6096
NSN 5990-01-322-9781