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 5910-00-644-7300
NSN 6135-00-297-8873
NSN 5960-01-622-0393
NSN 6685-00-899-4890
NSN 6110-01-422-5139
NSN 5985-00-871-5708
NSN 5985-01-244-5360
NSN 5930-01-400-6126
NSN 5935-01-363-2080
NSN 5835-00-148-9719
NSN 6220-01-320-5162
NSN 6240-01-319-8145