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 5998-00-983-8644
NSN 6620-00-900-3986
NSN 5996-00-509-8854
NSN 6650-01-146-5000
NSN 5935-01-304-0468
NSN 6620-01-138-0089
NSN 6610-01-180-2184
NSN 5905-00-466-1251
NSN 4140-01-271-1918
NSN 5945-01-432-8019
NSN 6220-01-441-2249
NSN 5999-00-941-6134