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 5998-01-078-0502
NSN 5930-00-105-7793
NSN 6220-00-237-3447
NSN 6135-01-020-3805
NSN 6145-01-079-8557
NSN 5925-01-322-7930
NSN 6105-00-275-0826
NSN 5930-01-394-4964
NSN 5915-01-468-0053
NSN 5960-01-008-5670
NSN 5999-01-398-7291
NSN 5950-00-165-9259