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 5999-01-576-4872
NSN 6645-01-218-5234
NSN 5985-01-630-1755
NSN 6320-00-394-8458
NSN 5915-01-412-1374
NSN 6650-00-273-8732
NSN 6135-00-170-8819
NSN 5950-01-455-6725
NSN 6645-00-269-2764
NSN 5998-01-166-9389
NSN 5925-01-263-3481
NSN 7035-00-631-3782