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 5999-00-819-7546
NSN 5910-01-529-7205
NSN 5945-00-644-9181
NSN 5998-01-432-2889
NSN 6240-01-330-5961
NSN 5998-01-133-0353
NSN 4140-01-071-6191
NSN 5950-01-375-3528
NSN 5925-01-392-0881
NSN 6650-01-229-7500
NSN 5985-01-063-7186
NSN 5990-01-525-1674