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 5999-01-363-4532
NSN 5965-01-237-3342
NSN 6620-01-640-6761
NSN 5998-00-031-3665
NSN 5855-00-763-2155
NSN 5895-00-501-8174
NSN 6240-00-388-6479
NSN 5930-00-446-1711
NSN 5910-01-074-2860
NSN 5990-01-039-2016
NSN 5996-01-393-1101
NSN 6145-01-429-8438