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 5985-01-436-9000
NSN 5945-00-621-2269
NSN 5905-01-223-7971
NSN 5965-01-547-2587
NSN 6650-00-641-3556
NSN 7035-00-455-7666
NSN 6320-01-583-6809
NSN 5998-00-369-0856
NSN 4140-01-115-0877
NSN 6645-01-329-7446
NSN 5996-01-359-5912
NSN 5999-00-659-3874