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 5998-00-583-8617
NSN 5910-01-415-0273
NSN 5925-01-454-8693
NSN 6610-01-519-3080
NSN 5835-01-337-8635
NSN 6135-01-476-4697
NSN 6110-01-480-6316
NSN 5950-01-057-5040
NSN 5985-01-553-8626
NSN 6645-01-390-6520
NSN 5965-00-170-8676
NSN 5895-00-481-7596