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 5999-01-227-2526
NSN 6650-01-421-8424
NSN 6620-00-369-0618
NSN 5835-01-519-2916
NSN 5930-01-290-7140
NSN 5950-00-784-8967
NSN 6220-01-471-8667
NSN 5920-01-372-1322
NSN 6240-01-535-6520
NSN 6220-01-322-7443
NSN 5950-01-186-1325
NSN 6110-01-494-8363