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 5910-00-275-0827
NSN 5905-01-575-9084
NSN 5996-01-163-1768
NSN 6220-00-248-5511
NSN 6685-00-284-2244
NSN 2925-01-359-4027
NSN 5925-00-521-0394
NSN 5915-00-557-8178
NSN 6110-01-147-0656
NSN 5905-01-248-1888
NSN 5975-00-581-4598
NSN 5996-01-285-0002