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 5999-01-625-4262
NSN 5960-01-448-3497
NSN 5925-01-194-3981
NSN 6645-00-946-7369
NSN 5835-00-411-6344
NSN 6320-01-029-4220
NSN 5990-01-503-9804
NSN 5920-01-020-7659
NSN 6145-00-239-1304
NSN 6220-00-126-2691
NSN 5925-01-206-4330
NSN 5996-00-097-1239