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 5999-01-242-5049
NSN 5920-01-620-9524
NSN 5990-00-458-9643
NSN 5985-00-068-2029
NSN 5895-01-440-5877
NSN 6650-00-318-6033
NSN 5835-01-475-5714
NSN 5925-00-222-6199
NSN 6240-01-626-2703
NSN 5905-01-476-4972
NSN 5835-01-340-7722
NSN 5996-00-959-6511