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 5960-01-389-4055
NSN 5998-00-756-0598
NSN 5935-01-116-8409
NSN 6105-00-753-0924
NSN 5965-00-005-7899
NSN 5999-01-006-2854
NSN 6220-01-348-7221
NSN 5996-01-536-8681
NSN 6110-01-434-7461
NSN 5990-01-351-4621
NSN 6220-01-630-4375
NSN 6685-01-646-1857