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 5975-00-943-9939
NSN 7035-00-703-3535
NSN 6145-00-728-1451
NSN 5935-01-230-5418
NSN 5965-01-487-3247
NSN 5930-01-417-2595
NSN 5950-01-593-6258
NSN 5960-01-495-0859
NSN 5930-00-946-9433
NSN 2925-01-567-8027
NSN 6135-01-026-9960
NSN 5905-00-764-9872