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 5999-01-334-2593
NSN 6105-01-474-5246
NSN 5999-00-790-7978
NSN 5996-01-088-8715
NSN 5965-01-504-6139
NSN 6620-01-551-7071
NSN 6320-01-600-0787
NSN 6130-00-248-7244
NSN 6645-01-009-7678
NSN 6135-01-426-8282
NSN 6145-00-526-3056
NSN 5998-00-048-1570