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 5930-00-189-1480
NSN 5905-00-128-6281
NSN 5910-01-387-4572
NSN 5965-01-231-9125
NSN 5905-01-117-4747
NSN 5965-01-186-2051
NSN 6320-00-098-2858
NSN 6150-01-358-2004
NSN 6650-00-279-5741
NSN 5998-01-167-8758
NSN 6650-01-444-8023
NSN 5835-00-725-2087