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 5920-00-900-5336
NSN 6150-01-076-1160
NSN 6610-01-010-3159
NSN 6645-01-565-0567
NSN 7035-00-104-7613
NSN 6240-01-568-4940
NSN 6145-01-022-5652
NSN 5998-01-137-8363
NSN 5930-00-127-1422
NSN 6645-01-578-6815
NSN 5905-01-570-4618
NSN 5930-01-036-7361