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 5998-01-177-2885
NSN 5999-00-962-5769
NSN 6135-01-441-0518
NSN 6645-00-704-3630
NSN 6320-00-593-0379
NSN 5996-01-048-0706
NSN 6150-00-270-1001
NSN 5960-01-218-2858
NSN 5965-00-080-2045
NSN 5895-01-564-0663
NSN 7035-01-394-1324
NSN 5895-01-305-7685