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 5910-00-012-5583
NSN 5999-01-370-7418
NSN 5996-00-597-2234
NSN 5910-01-449-3132
NSN 6110-01-380-4380
NSN 5935-00-005-4436
NSN 5905-00-818-8598
NSN 5999-00-819-7546
NSN 2925-01-273-4898
NSN 5999-01-609-4629
NSN 6650-01-018-1830
NSN 5905-00-968-6501