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 5930-01-004-2103
NSN 6645-00-487-5114
NSN 2925-01-218-5556
NSN 6145-01-350-3532
NSN 2925-00-278-9468
NSN 6645-01-447-0020
NSN 6150-01-415-3573
NSN 5996-01-378-8532
NSN 5925-00-690-5974
NSN 5915-01-050-3683
NSN 6620-00-148-9613
NSN 5996-00-723-6743