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 5990-01-463-5400
NSN 5998-01-502-1816
NSN 5935-01-218-0839
NSN 5920-00-828-7904
NSN 6145-01-181-6198
NSN 6240-01-488-3094
NSN 6610-01-534-9765
NSN 5855-01-308-0955
NSN 5895-01-295-6377
NSN 5950-00-016-8382
NSN 5975-01-233-2495
NSN 5965-01-057-7719