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 5999-00-832-2154
NSN 6650-01-595-6102
NSN 5996-00-065-8376
NSN 6645-01-111-9825
NSN 6150-00-198-1074
NSN 6685-00-111-1123
NSN 5999-00-419-7213
NSN 5975-00-286-8506
NSN 5920-00-258-6822
NSN 6240-00-445-4765
NSN 6645-01-238-2718
NSN 6220-01-634-0660