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 5999-00-780-8899
NSN 2925-01-122-8881
NSN 6610-00-751-7916
NSN 5999-01-160-7905
NSN 5895-00-794-2517
NSN 5960-00-833-7438
NSN 5996-01-335-7398
NSN 6650-01-462-5879
NSN 6150-00-821-5561
NSN 6685-01-017-1419
NSN 5965-01-384-1953
NSN 5925-00-817-8579