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 5935-00-165-3499
NSN 6220-01-015-5850
NSN 5990-01-168-6797
NSN 5835-00-494-1701
NSN 5920-01-352-0880
NSN 5855-01-006-1827
NSN 5990-01-013-8464
NSN 6645-01-210-5649
NSN 5920-01-450-5094
NSN 5998-01-423-8525
NSN 6220-00-987-5638
NSN 5960-01-449-1310