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 6150-00-751-9173
NSN 5996-01-396-0655
NSN 5935-00-949-3481
NSN 6645-01-501-0576
NSN 5990-01-315-3754
NSN 5915-01-422-9979
NSN 5985-01-263-6603
NSN 5920-01-422-7044
NSN 6110-01-412-6602
NSN 5985-00-577-2920
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 6610-00-173-4011