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 5999-00-503-8028
NSN 5855-00-301-1176
NSN 5990-00-116-6590
NSN 6650-01-487-6274
NSN 6135-00-505-0679
NSN 7035-00-946-2642
NSN 5996-00-862-5514
NSN 5855-01-542-9059
NSN 5996-01-515-4431
NSN 6685-01-560-1517
NSN 5935-01-358-5989
NSN 5975-01-457-4021