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 5925-01-399-0613
NSN 5985-01-519-3784
NSN 5999-01-014-5337
NSN 5950-01-534-1137
NSN 5925-01-480-2119
NSN 5950-00-645-0974
NSN 6220-00-120-1249
NSN 6240-01-357-7925
NSN 5990-01-550-7827
NSN 6105-01-603-0373
NSN 6620-01-152-9453
NSN 6145-01-010-7302