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 5998-00-936-2571
NSN 5999-01-621-8181
NSN 5905-01-552-2436
NSN 5925-01-597-9576
NSN 5910-00-472-9720
NSN 5985-00-613-9286
NSN 5895-01-298-6356
NSN 5965-00-015-7408
NSN 5998-01-229-5351
NSN 5950-01-033-6480
NSN 2925-00-777-2902
NSN 5925-00-644-5546