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 5960-01-381-8475
NSN 5935-01-335-8117
NSN 6150-01-196-6329
NSN 5950-00-938-2816
NSN 5965-01-261-0569
NSN 2925-01-389-6874
NSN 5998-01-250-7924
NSN 5990-01-457-6316
NSN 5910-00-195-6778
NSN 5998-01-592-3065
NSN 5996-01-421-3373
NSN 6645-00-276-7544