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 6685-00-701-9540
NSN 5990-01-189-9338
NSN 5855-01-325-9507
NSN 5999-01-120-7412
NSN 6145-01-013-8463
NSN 5965-01-165-3002
NSN 2925-00-465-6354
NSN 6240-01-295-1750
NSN 6240-00-364-0850
NSN 7035-00-205-1932
NSN 5990-00-067-6791
NSN 5930-01-519-5509