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 5960-01-288-8910
NSN 5975-01-444-1703
NSN 5965-01-067-4946
NSN 5905-01-089-6590
NSN 5975-00-181-5825
NSN 5999-01-384-2655
NSN 7035-00-064-7008
NSN 5998-01-375-1611
NSN 6685-01-406-4482
NSN 5895-01-238-1077
NSN 4140-01-440-9203
NSN 6650-01-024-9554