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 5945-00-376-2195
NSN 6320-01-643-0850
NSN 6150-01-029-8649
NSN 2925-01-157-9204
NSN 5915-00-167-0306
NSN 6220-01-558-8594
NSN 2925-00-432-3410
NSN 6650-00-421-5300
NSN 5950-00-904-6093
NSN 2925-01-629-9416
NSN 5835-01-462-5983
NSN 6110-01-411-6619