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 5935-00-008-2863
NSN 5835-01-027-1828
NSN 5925-01-134-8470
NSN 5905-01-068-7776
NSN 5996-01-358-8671
NSN 6110-01-418-0802
NSN 5895-00-637-2658
NSN 6220-01-508-3408
NSN 6110-01-196-5496
NSN 6145-00-205-4046
NSN 5965-00-823-8623
NSN 6685-00-492-8043