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 5925-00-833-8291
NSN 5960-01-082-1992
NSN 5975-00-544-7840
NSN 5935-01-085-6270
NSN 5999-01-363-9936
NSN 6130-01-124-2556
NSN 7035-00-763-6180
NSN 5895-00-098-5431
NSN 6610-01-165-3750
NSN 7035-00-076-4097
NSN 6610-01-447-1082
NSN 5835-00-564-0057