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 5925-01-498-3967
NSN 5895-01-643-9172
NSN 6645-01-456-8021
NSN 5998-01-172-4560
NSN 5920-00-571-7037
NSN 6110-01-480-7224
NSN 5920-01-617-4311
NSN 5925-01-469-6667
NSN 5835-01-657-0245
NSN 5935-00-760-8313
NSN 5935-00-945-0001
NSN 5965-01-608-3353