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 7035-01-005-0694
NSN 5935-00-087-8049
NSN 6240-01-263-0123
NSN 5895-01-132-9607
NSN 5990-01-276-6190
NSN 5935-01-039-9011
NSN 5965-00-445-1843
NSN 5998-01-596-1445
NSN 5895-01-036-3173
NSN 5945-01-116-3606
NSN 5910-01-633-9963
NSN 5935-01-295-2926