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 5950-00-332-2035
NSN 5975-00-565-1071
NSN 5835-01-555-8963
NSN 6105-00-610-0538
NSN 5935-00-149-1485
NSN 6220-01-207-1229
NSN 6110-01-354-2885
NSN 5855-01-147-4785
NSN 6150-01-438-3997
NSN 6240-01-491-5540
NSN 5975-01-247-2305
NSN 5930-01-117-9116