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 5999-00-122-6475
NSN 6685-01-104-1782
NSN 5950-00-435-4033
NSN 5960-01-025-2526
NSN 6610-00-536-4977
NSN 5998-01-629-5565
NSN 5950-00-244-4581
NSN 5985-01-469-3368
NSN 6145-00-110-8305
NSN 5960-00-591-8591
NSN 6650-00-518-5194
NSN 6135-01-512-8105