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 5990-01-334-3268
NSN 5990-01-129-7701
NSN 5965-01-039-8557
NSN 6240-01-245-0014
NSN 6135-01-142-6456
NSN 5855-01-386-7323
NSN 5915-01-561-3546
NSN 5985-01-181-5420
NSN 5990-00-785-1876
NSN 5999-01-332-5392
NSN 6130-00-034-4472
NSN 5975-01-148-7686