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 6620-00-992-5876
NSN 5999-00-189-0772
NSN 5920-01-469-1885
NSN 5895-01-514-7015
NSN 5855-01-020-7982
NSN 5855-00-100-9003
NSN 6220-00-564-2868
NSN 5990-01-432-4249
NSN 6620-01-497-3744
NSN 6145-01-510-7417
NSN 4140-00-817-6009
NSN 5990-01-493-4039