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 5996-01-224-9842
NSN 5998-01-287-8546
NSN 5915-00-498-8596
NSN 6650-00-976-2507
NSN 5965-00-049-7649
NSN 5998-00-456-8874
NSN 5985-01-564-6243
NSN 7035-00-631-3782
NSN 6610-01-245-8015
NSN 5910-01-325-3434
NSN 6150-00-653-6427
NSN 6150-01-172-7293