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 5990-01-126-5824
NSN 5905-01-239-3851
NSN 5965-01-576-9859
NSN 5975-01-143-9396
NSN 5999-00-375-5077
NSN 5998-01-171-6454
NSN 6320-01-578-6006
NSN 5950-01-200-2783
NSN 6645-00-016-0594
NSN 6135-01-502-5787
NSN 5920-01-147-6860
NSN 5835-01-303-6563