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 5930-01-311-2155
NSN 6650-01-014-5990
NSN 5985-01-284-0394
NSN 5895-00-261-9838
NSN 5960-01-632-6576
NSN 6645-01-124-3935
NSN 2925-00-463-1282
NSN 5996-01-408-4185
NSN 6150-01-353-8144
NSN 5925-00-007-0940
NSN 5935-01-016-4179
NSN 7035-01-383-9357