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 5915-01-109-6249
NSN 5895-01-276-2759
NSN 5945-01-111-7581
NSN 6150-01-132-9273
NSN 6150-01-396-9538
NSN 6645-00-075-4764
NSN 5998-01-376-5620
NSN 5895-01-417-1880
NSN 6610-01-245-8015
NSN 6145-00-269-4271
NSN 5935-01-621-1715
NSN 5960-01-089-8155