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 5930-01-235-2148
NSN 5855-01-656-6808
NSN 5990-01-030-1034
NSN 5996-00-186-8709
NSN 5835-01-580-0446
NSN 5920-01-177-9200
NSN 6610-00-905-0210
NSN 6320-00-270-8222
NSN 5920-01-475-0443
NSN 6135-00-057-2005
NSN 6130-00-277-7321
NSN 5895-01-197-9849