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 5996-01-655-1227
NSN 5990-01-086-4825
NSN 5925-00-109-2218
NSN 6685-00-959-8815
NSN 5990-00-428-1895
NSN 5925-00-890-9731
NSN 5975-01-634-0678
NSN 6320-01-160-7757
NSN 5999-01-067-0690
NSN 6650-00-900-0049
NSN 6220-01-028-2586
NSN 5999-01-059-5523