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 5998-00-019-8497
NSN 5930-01-394-4964
NSN 5999-00-067-5691
NSN 5835-01-150-6084
NSN 5935-01-207-9193
NSN 5999-00-111-0556
NSN 6645-00-079-1430
NSN 5950-01-653-4800
NSN 6610-00-980-0518
NSN 6110-01-500-2240
NSN 5915-01-271-5748
NSN 5999-01-215-4867