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 5905-00-802-5423
NSN 5965-00-457-2496
NSN 6105-00-116-1249
NSN 5905-01-545-5883
NSN 6145-01-252-7675
NSN 6145-00-903-4619
NSN 6105-01-632-7767
NSN 5950-01-106-2417
NSN 5965-00-790-6539
NSN 5990-01-024-9659
NSN 6620-00-891-8584
NSN 6110-00-111-2761