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 5960-00-517-9359
NSN 5985-00-262-0823
NSN 6320-00-070-4544
NSN 6620-01-210-4401
NSN 6130-00-236-1963
NSN 5990-01-632-0969
NSN 6240-01-122-3649
NSN 5996-00-492-9771
NSN 5915-01-476-1521
NSN 6145-01-025-9682
NSN 5999-00-315-3805
NSN 6220-00-279-8417