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 5990-01-493-4039
NSN 6135-01-106-7740
NSN 6685-01-529-9897
NSN 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 6650-00-804-2039
NSN 6645-01-569-9087
NSN 5935-00-959-5668
NSN 5895-01-322-5563
NSN 6685-01-406-4482
NSN 6135-01-400-2947
NSN 6685-01-248-4463
NSN 5925-01-413-4997