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 5925-00-468-2757
NSN 6150-01-126-0022
NSN 5950-01-256-9583
NSN 5999-00-888-9599
NSN 5998-01-322-8328
NSN 6105-01-457-6198
NSN 6150-01-355-0421
NSN 5975-01-024-8486
NSN 6650-01-527-0465
NSN 6650-01-068-3997
NSN 5998-00-962-3206
NSN 5950-01-445-1105