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 5945-00-067-0007
NSN 5985-01-106-0190
NSN 5999-01-223-7426
NSN 5985-00-581-5285
NSN 6105-01-355-6603
NSN 5920-00-823-0969
NSN 6145-01-353-8736
NSN 5930-00-188-1055
NSN 5965-01-439-5800
NSN 5975-01-020-7131
NSN 6610-01-406-4985
NSN 5999-01-435-5734