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 5935-00-787-9015
NSN 5999-01-350-3180
NSN 6135-01-216-5479
NSN 5998-00-339-9244
NSN 5965-01-368-9994
NSN 6685-01-281-5495
NSN 7035-00-517-8232
NSN 6145-01-333-8191
NSN 6105-00-951-7776
NSN 6110-01-352-6438
NSN 5996-00-965-5261
NSN 6645-01-258-5558