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 5999-00-970-5301
NSN 5998-00-589-3719
NSN 5925-00-196-6978
NSN 6105-01-598-8806
NSN 5950-01-385-4668
NSN 5895-01-482-7124
NSN 6220-01-373-5918
NSN 5945-01-323-4350
NSN 5965-01-554-8140
NSN 5905-01-350-3624
NSN 5998-01-385-1007
NSN 6240-00-235-5159