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 5910-00-056-2200
NSN 6650-00-104-5368
NSN 5975-01-422-5507
NSN 5920-01-394-3826
NSN 6685-01-391-6790
NSN 6645-00-220-2458
NSN 5999-01-294-2323
NSN 5945-01-082-7104
NSN 5990-00-838-1082
NSN 5910-00-618-0196
NSN 5915-00-765-0558
NSN 6145-01-368-4894