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 5985-00-194-1559
NSN 6685-01-155-6563
NSN 5950-00-189-0551
NSN 5965-00-309-4814
NSN 6145-01-650-9410
NSN 5905-01-123-1397
NSN 5985-00-338-6424
NSN 6220-01-162-7954
NSN 5855-01-579-7065
NSN 6240-01-226-6484
NSN 6145-00-286-9588
NSN 5999-00-328-3868