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 5985-00-009-9518
NSN 5905-01-039-8221
NSN 5996-01-466-4577
NSN 5935-00-916-3860
NSN 6220-01-194-2963
NSN 6650-01-096-4993
NSN 5965-01-307-7503
NSN 2925-01-302-8591
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 6110-01-432-2442
NSN 5945-00-057-6878
NSN 6610-00-610-0228