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 5960-00-011-9315
NSN 5990-01-080-0097
NSN 2925-00-167-6762
NSN 6320-01-521-1764
NSN 6220-01-654-0007
NSN 5895-00-438-1919
NSN 6130-01-420-6386
NSN 6645-00-179-8676
NSN 6320-01-407-8663
NSN 6135-01-421-1052
NSN 5835-01-152-9483
NSN 4140-01-310-5045