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 5999-01-246-5004
NSN 6685-01-227-2621
NSN 5960-00-258-9292
NSN 5835-01-399-5820
NSN 5835-01-579-5941
NSN 6240-01-580-1345
NSN 5910-01-057-3087
NSN 5935-01-433-1065
NSN 4140-01-507-3172
NSN 6220-01-070-2772
NSN 5835-00-602-4750
NSN 4140-01-633-7709