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 5996-01-581-1328
NSN 5925-00-222-8263
NSN 6650-01-044-6377
NSN 5985-01-486-5621
NSN 5985-01-391-5676
NSN 5855-01-236-6987
NSN 5998-01-497-8692
NSN 6145-01-451-4304
NSN 5965-01-484-9818
NSN 5990-01-052-5970
NSN 5950-00-423-5250
NSN 6150-01-515-0700