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 5975-01-224-8225
NSN 6110-01-154-0002
NSN 5975-01-481-0357
NSN 5915-00-281-0304
NSN 5905-01-271-5900
NSN 5930-00-633-8008
NSN 5996-01-300-8764
NSN 6620-01-659-8887
NSN 4140-01-168-8796
NSN 6610-00-365-4454
NSN 5999-01-075-8426
NSN 4140-01-151-3547