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 5910-01-411-3929
NSN 6320-01-173-7950
NSN 6240-01-026-1376
NSN 5999-01-043-5368
NSN 6145-01-527-7854
NSN 5905-01-292-5024
NSN 5910-01-230-0400
NSN 5920-01-032-4756
NSN 6105-01-394-1283
NSN 6645-01-369-4371
NSN 6130-00-277-7321
NSN 6130-01-605-9938