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 5950-00-216-7548
NSN 5920-01-152-1021
NSN 6135-01-322-4655
NSN 6150-01-653-8472
NSN 5920-00-723-4554
NSN 6610-00-924-8814
NSN 6620-01-590-6283
NSN 6610-01-464-3037
NSN 6645-00-922-8312
NSN 5960-01-521-0626
NSN 5895-01-454-6980
NSN 5855-00-361-0167