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 5910-00-251-0598
NSN 5999-00-038-1621
NSN 5945-00-189-9978
NSN 5930-01-481-2993
NSN 6320-00-546-9249
NSN 5925-00-573-4367
NSN 5998-01-133-8049
NSN 5895-01-169-1296
NSN 6610-01-630-3429
NSN 6145-01-073-3766
NSN 5855-00-010-6492
NSN 2925-01-197-7864