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 5910-01-444-4096
NSN 6220-00-784-2243
NSN 6105-01-254-3626
NSN 6610-01-542-2276
NSN 6645-00-344-7558
NSN 6150-01-203-9705
NSN 5990-01-364-1942
NSN 5945-00-363-9481
NSN 6320-01-643-0850
NSN 6320-01-033-6624
NSN 5910-01-196-4749
NSN 5985-00-446-6132