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 5960-00-906-2149
NSN 5996-01-633-7979
NSN 5910-01-360-6092
NSN 5950-01-121-8073
NSN 5895-01-177-7395
NSN 5990-01-054-4255
NSN 6145-01-448-3910
NSN 5905-00-804-2768
NSN 5835-00-987-9341
NSN 6130-01-090-0894
NSN 6620-00-267-5273
NSN 6240-00-189-2762