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 5999-00-419-1424
NSN 5960-00-181-0640
NSN 5910-01-512-3427
NSN 5998-00-900-8258
NSN 5915-00-979-8225
NSN 4140-01-512-7286
NSN 5835-01-337-8635
NSN 6610-01-499-0776
NSN 5998-01-593-9473
NSN 5999-01-560-9336
NSN 2925-01-121-3355
NSN 5935-01-596-0226