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 5999-01-561-2097
NSN 5945-01-322-0862
NSN 6650-01-269-6817
NSN 6650-01-145-3731
NSN 6320-01-630-7629
NSN 6105-01-421-2413
NSN 4140-00-313-2358
NSN 6610-01-429-7267
NSN 5975-00-329-2465
NSN 7035-00-232-4043
NSN 5996-00-113-3368
NSN 5855-01-634-0259