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 5985-00-798-2335
NSN 5835-01-560-3486
NSN 2925-01-628-5296
NSN 5950-01-173-5138
NSN 7035-01-087-7727
NSN 6150-01-332-4312
NSN 6145-01-443-1434
NSN 6645-01-328-1034
NSN 5999-01-157-9813
NSN 6240-01-146-2850
NSN 5985-01-422-4719
NSN 5925-00-111-1969