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 5990-00-044-8862
NSN 6240-00-612-0883
NSN 5935-01-406-3486
NSN 5985-00-707-3473
NSN 5990-00-681-2789
NSN 5996-01-156-9688
NSN 6650-01-175-0841
NSN 6130-01-415-0944
NSN 7035-00-679-9027
NSN 5985-01-102-1576
NSN 5990-00-759-3423
NSN 5965-00-134-0883