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 5965-01-508-2537
NSN 5965-00-281-0319
NSN 5920-01-190-0265
NSN 6645-01-370-5264
NSN 5855-00-477-9943
NSN 6645-00-349-9336
NSN 6220-00-344-3189
NSN 6130-00-767-4719
NSN 5945-01-094-7313
NSN 5835-01-149-6855
NSN 5935-01-380-0202
NSN 6150-01-509-4421