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 5965-01-100-1195
NSN 5935-00-816-4802
NSN 6240-01-130-1505
NSN 5945-00-738-5941
NSN 5985-01-227-2592
NSN 5935-00-358-3025
NSN 5925-01-560-4040
NSN 6610-00-918-3389
NSN 6620-00-724-3137
NSN 6610-00-905-6780
NSN 5925-01-541-6186
NSN 5895-01-578-2833