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 5950-00-000-0146
NSN 5915-01-060-8768
NSN 5915-01-574-5139
NSN 5895-01-476-1629
NSN 5996-00-270-0340
NSN 5965-01-256-9460
NSN 5996-00-478-0197
NSN 5999-01-046-7220
NSN 5960-00-643-8201
NSN 5895-00-082-0877
NSN 5985-01-268-4709
NSN 6135-01-167-0759