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 5920-01-165-6881
NSN 5998-01-296-6373
NSN 6320-00-521-9248
NSN 5855-01-013-6864
NSN 5945-00-189-1302
NSN 5895-01-099-1515
NSN 6105-01-485-9204
NSN 5950-00-778-6170
NSN 5998-00-545-7660
NSN 5985-00-581-0513
NSN 7035-01-155-9025
NSN 5975-01-269-9693