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 5910-00-385-1149
NSN 6650-00-734-3985
NSN 5990-01-584-8363
NSN 5930-00-183-6594
NSN 6620-00-190-8109
NSN 5945-00-420-9455
NSN 5998-01-293-8336
NSN 5998-00-472-1883
NSN 5950-00-802-2558
NSN 6320-01-583-6809
NSN 5855-00-014-5008
NSN 6150-01-166-9448