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 5998-01-534-2528
NSN 5945-01-239-3230
NSN 5990-01-065-0492
NSN 6130-01-377-0370
NSN 6130-01-277-5997
NSN 6110-01-423-9193
NSN 5960-01-129-4203
NSN 6130-01-435-2242
NSN 6135-01-222-0703
NSN 5930-01-633-6497
NSN 5960-01-586-5235
NSN 5950-00-411-3273