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 5998-00-434-0654
NSN 5930-01-145-0094
NSN 5999-01-391-5646
NSN 6130-01-585-3664
NSN 5985-01-424-0531
NSN 5835-01-369-7837
NSN 5835-01-416-6449
NSN 5930-00-761-9367
NSN 5990-00-586-6435
NSN 6105-00-874-9364
NSN 5920-01-599-2656
NSN 6220-01-386-3810