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 5990-00-843-2063
NSN 5996-00-101-9667
NSN 5905-01-102-9810
NSN 5999-00-299-0840
NSN 5935-01-168-8753
NSN 6650-01-606-2277
NSN 5945-01-047-2052
NSN 6145-01-138-5592
NSN 6135-01-449-0625
NSN 6145-01-606-7710
NSN 5935-01-380-2573
NSN 5905-01-487-4374