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 5945-01-131-0943
NSN 5985-01-511-0391
NSN 5996-01-452-1868
NSN 6645-01-021-5727
NSN 5985-01-495-4094
NSN 5999-01-173-6964
NSN 5998-00-285-1902
NSN 5925-00-741-5420
NSN 6110-01-424-1208
NSN 5965-01-328-9765
NSN 6645-00-536-1555
NSN 5975-00-864-3759