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 5895-00-368-6609
NSN 6220-01-426-8824
NSN 5950-01-564-4904
NSN 5930-01-055-6486
NSN 6320-01-176-8367
NSN 6650-01-446-2025
NSN 6145-01-616-1584
NSN 6135-01-633-8502
NSN 5895-01-090-7564
NSN 6145-00-103-9848
NSN 6650-00-161-4122
NSN 6220-00-539-8769