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 5915-01-558-3923
NSN 5965-01-298-1685
NSN 5960-00-053-4750
NSN 6145-01-284-3824
NSN 5999-01-284-6699
NSN 5985-00-079-4385
NSN 5835-01-378-6804
NSN 5945-01-451-3501
NSN 5835-01-278-4683
NSN 5950-01-604-8820
NSN 6110-01-119-9254
NSN 7035-01-501-5938