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 5998-01-229-3900
NSN 5915-01-563-1832
NSN 5960-00-833-9154
NSN 5990-00-232-3965
NSN 5935-01-448-6973
NSN 5945-01-123-8685
NSN 5915-01-147-4830
NSN 5915-01-328-4580
NSN 5990-00-177-2924
NSN 6150-01-490-5562
NSN 6645-00-583-0066
NSN 6650-01-646-1643