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 5975-00-279-8693
NSN 5998-00-070-1726
NSN 5965-01-036-9945
NSN 5960-01-649-1341
NSN 5855-01-029-8733
NSN 6610-00-925-0935
NSN 5930-00-021-2205
NSN 6645-01-451-0260
NSN 5950-00-596-7020
NSN 6645-00-153-3834
NSN 6105-01-482-4062
NSN 5990-00-578-8850