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 5920-00-765-2867
NSN 5945-00-005-3209
NSN 5835-00-954-1190
NSN 5998-01-246-7597
NSN 5996-01-299-0541
NSN 5985-00-476-4573
NSN 6135-00-777-5562
NSN 6620-01-545-7396
NSN 5998-00-862-2398
NSN 5990-00-725-6286
NSN 6150-01-268-7150
NSN 5950-01-023-0805