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 5975-01-508-5157
NSN 6135-00-010-5275
NSN 5915-00-925-2513
NSN 5835-01-572-9308
NSN 5998-01-481-3367
NSN 5945-00-161-5109
NSN 5920-01-531-8991
NSN 5975-01-102-4084
NSN 6145-01-595-9139
NSN 5835-01-464-7038
NSN 6135-00-027-3914
NSN 5998-00-242-8594