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 5975-01-461-3120
NSN 6620-01-314-8990
NSN 6150-01-011-1505
NSN 5945-01-428-9943
NSN 5950-01-654-9484
NSN 5910-01-060-3102
NSN 6240-00-500-3725
NSN 4140-01-189-4980
NSN 5925-01-511-5852
NSN 6685-00-413-6671
NSN 5996-01-436-0426
NSN 5999-01-560-0619