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 6145-00-153-2818
NSN 6130-01-098-7175
NSN 5999-01-538-9664
NSN 5925-01-200-7813
NSN 5975-00-285-6079
NSN 5835-00-498-8189
NSN 6110-01-319-0259
NSN 6685-00-524-6003
NSN 5945-00-883-1094
NSN 5855-01-147-4785
NSN 6105-01-026-1884
NSN 6220-00-416-6215