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 5985-00-816-8486
NSN 5965-00-079-0928
NSN 5998-01-327-7641
NSN 6240-01-074-5504
NSN 5960-00-466-3523
NSN 5999-01-540-2477
NSN 5920-00-284-5785
NSN 6145-01-091-8026
NSN 5945-01-318-4034
NSN 5999-01-366-9925
NSN 5950-00-867-8349
NSN 5905-01-410-2933