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 5965-00-854-2075
NSN 6650-01-570-9648
NSN 5999-01-444-2775
NSN 5835-01-009-1059
NSN 5999-01-481-3744
NSN 5835-01-042-0958
NSN 6650-00-299-9681
NSN 6150-01-324-3386
NSN 5945-01-101-3391
NSN 5855-00-832-9341
NSN 6105-00-456-7512
NSN 6620-00-010-8190