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 5990-01-027-1869
NSN 6685-01-360-0303
NSN 6685-00-682-7459
NSN 5835-01-355-3654
NSN 5855-00-548-4742
NSN 6620-00-723-2075
NSN 6610-01-362-7208
NSN 5905-00-543-1096
NSN 6110-00-583-9821
NSN 5998-01-170-8400
NSN 5960-01-331-3817
NSN 5950-01-213-5328