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 5915-01-154-1495
NSN 5895-00-939-2586
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5920-00-701-1200
NSN 6685-01-195-7630
NSN 5990-01-352-5255
NSN 5999-01-248-4990
NSN 6645-01-557-4608
NSN 5950-00-583-7892
NSN 5990-01-050-7535
NSN 5895-01-018-8722
NSN 5905-00-853-5574