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 7035-00-800-0770
NSN 5998-00-150-0513
NSN 6650-01-285-4546
NSN 6320-01-148-8125
NSN 5965-01-291-0384
NSN 5975-01-066-3187
NSN 5975-00-647-4968
NSN 5905-01-364-8594
NSN 5996-01-028-3580
NSN 5930-01-471-5657
NSN 5985-01-024-1294
NSN 6110-01-443-1172