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 5996-01-123-9038
NSN 5985-01-545-3220
NSN 5965-01-571-5678
NSN 5975-01-323-6361
NSN 5960-01-245-6088
NSN 5960-00-402-7563
NSN 5945-01-291-7778
NSN 6650-00-629-8027
NSN 7035-01-235-6023
NSN 4140-01-598-6113
NSN 6135-01-093-7426
NSN 6240-01-369-4632