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 5985-01-388-5691
NSN 5990-01-449-7090
NSN 5920-01-187-1014
NSN 5996-00-857-8246
NSN 5925-00-012-4396
NSN 6145-00-757-9479
NSN 5996-00-454-7938
NSN 5945-00-200-9337
NSN 5920-01-200-6655
NSN 6320-00-731-6134
NSN 5996-01-259-1547
NSN 5910-01-608-1654