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 5985-01-368-0986
NSN 5990-01-529-7307
NSN 5930-01-375-5240
NSN 5965-01-024-6137
NSN 5965-00-529-0602
NSN 5996-01-137-7424
NSN 5985-01-113-9390
NSN 5915-01-542-6736
NSN 5915-01-179-1661
NSN 5990-00-033-8128
NSN 6145-01-592-8017
NSN 6685-01-577-5297