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 5990-00-518-3195
NSN 4140-01-106-2559
NSN 5920-01-138-9257
NSN 6150-01-394-5651
NSN 6240-01-420-6495
NSN 5905-00-261-3418
NSN 5999-00-401-0404
NSN 5925-01-138-6344
NSN 6220-01-401-5337
NSN 6135-01-120-9812
NSN 6650-00-724-8258
NSN 5925-01-534-4866