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 5950-01-013-9382
NSN 6685-00-222-8216
NSN 5925-01-237-8734
NSN 5915-00-442-3656
NSN 5975-01-016-9493
NSN 5930-00-436-3651
NSN 5998-01-459-6109
NSN 5945-01-235-7698
NSN 5920-00-074-4654
NSN 5990-01-504-9265
NSN 5965-01-095-9767
NSN 5985-00-823-2028