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 5975-01-048-2922
NSN 5990-00-190-4048
NSN 6145-01-007-8870
NSN 6130-01-094-7070
NSN 6145-01-508-5150
NSN 5985-01-199-7909
NSN 6650-01-275-3112
NSN 5999-00-536-3311
NSN 6240-01-112-1120
NSN 5910-01-106-1485
NSN 6620-01-578-1984
NSN 5835-01-381-1824