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 5925-01-139-3866
NSN 5996-00-118-2703
NSN 5950-01-613-5688
NSN 6220-01-564-1117
NSN 6610-01-080-8064
NSN 6320-01-406-6098
NSN 2925-01-648-6859
NSN 6610-01-423-7481
NSN 5930-01-499-5772
NSN 6650-01-527-5182
NSN 6685-01-238-5622
NSN 5910-00-878-7113