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 6610-00-846-4525
NSN 6685-01-248-7334
NSN 5985-01-446-8269
NSN 5990-01-582-5238
NSN 6645-00-932-1464
NSN 5985-01-441-3590
NSN 6135-00-542-6216
NSN 5905-01-170-9706
NSN 6150-01-578-0994
NSN 5925-01-194-9600
NSN 5915-01-227-2337
NSN 5930-01-414-6406