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 5945-00-846-0832
NSN 5950-01-165-9998
NSN 6110-01-034-7213
NSN 2925-01-116-6838
NSN 6105-01-645-4935
NSN 5925-01-325-4486
NSN 5990-01-188-7309
NSN 6685-00-456-2385
NSN 5965-01-146-9162
NSN 6145-01-401-3713
NSN 6135-01-440-9412
NSN 5998-00-314-5724