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 5999-01-570-0554
NSN 6220-01-371-3430
NSN 5996-00-875-1058
NSN 5935-01-462-8698
NSN 5965-01-217-7167
NSN 6240-01-060-6037
NSN 5945-01-076-1744
NSN 5950-01-579-5766
NSN 5925-01-462-7251
NSN 6650-00-098-6128
NSN 5945-00-580-0873
NSN 5960-00-104-5955