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 5999-01-501-5783
NSN 5905-01-587-7002
NSN 6220-01-525-5778
NSN 5975-00-855-5766
NSN 5910-00-637-2609
NSN 6145-00-791-9820
NSN 6650-01-395-5991
NSN 5990-00-839-8757
NSN 5960-01-266-1011
NSN 6620-01-542-9999
NSN 6685-00-258-9191
NSN 6130-00-995-7676