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 5895-01-237-6425
NSN 5905-01-170-6122
NSN 5945-01-521-4254
NSN 6685-00-717-7059
NSN 5910-00-065-2089
NSN 6145-01-168-5680
NSN 5975-00-185-5243
NSN 5975-00-144-7878
NSN 6220-00-138-5969
NSN 6650-00-230-4575
NSN 5990-00-885-4020
NSN 5905-00-333-3172