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 5925-01-345-9418
NSN 5945-01-039-0643
NSN 6130-01-412-0791
NSN 5998-01-025-1688
NSN 5975-01-212-2761
NSN 5996-00-868-7170
NSN 6220-01-406-5891
NSN 5835-01-163-4215
NSN 6220-01-366-5296
NSN 6135-01-411-3212
NSN 6145-01-019-6897
NSN 7035-01-533-5502