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 5999-00-721-1547
NSN 5910-00-898-1445
NSN 6145-01-528-1197
NSN 6650-01-521-2077
NSN 5985-01-112-9864
NSN 5990-00-935-5610
NSN 5998-01-648-4158
NSN 4140-00-837-9898
NSN 5915-01-215-5942
NSN 5975-01-306-9382
NSN 5945-00-839-6151
NSN 5935-01-531-6056