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 5990-01-216-0148
NSN 7035-01-535-1450
NSN 5999-01-052-8459
NSN 5915-00-375-5000
NSN 5998-01-421-2773
NSN 6135-01-523-3198
NSN 5910-01-468-8814
NSN 5930-00-554-9358
NSN 6150-01-206-4624
NSN 6685-00-638-9261
NSN 6150-00-528-0636
NSN 5945-00-864-7766