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 5945-00-116-1113
NSN 6645-00-763-4852
NSN 6610-00-195-7517
NSN 6110-01-441-1623
NSN 5960-01-013-9346
NSN 5835-01-656-2940
NSN 5935-01-322-7088
NSN 5998-01-037-5862
NSN 6650-00-450-3504
NSN 5945-01-608-1739
NSN 6150-01-095-2522
NSN 5950-01-347-2152