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 7035-01-481-2110
NSN 2925-01-583-5619
NSN 6240-01-576-3307
NSN 6610-01-225-6496
NSN 5930-00-291-5400
NSN 5985-00-372-5946
NSN 5996-01-025-8571
NSN 5835-00-770-2843
NSN 5905-00-706-8963
NSN 5910-01-124-2049
NSN 6240-00-941-5211
NSN 5998-00-932-8269