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 6150-00-407-1386
NSN 5920-00-233-7366
NSN 6320-01-573-3215
NSN 5998-00-874-1062
NSN 7035-00-337-8745
NSN 5999-00-394-1221
NSN 6320-01-399-6177
NSN 6135-01-442-7275
NSN 6240-01-103-5300
NSN 6145-01-257-7484
NSN 7035-01-584-1350
NSN 5910-00-597-2522