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 5996-00-767-0291
NSN 5925-01-053-1449
NSN 6610-00-015-2020
NSN 5998-00-001-1887
NSN 5915-01-578-6153
NSN 7035-01-492-6799
NSN 5920-01-413-5266
NSN 5855-01-013-6864
NSN 5996-01-606-6603
NSN 6145-01-578-1561
NSN 5905-00-109-0534
NSN 5925-01-364-2960