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 6150-00-939-7186
NSN 6610-01-224-7247
NSN 5905-00-196-5343
NSN 5960-01-101-9029
NSN 5920-01-491-4172
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5960-00-730-9838
NSN 6650-01-118-1657
NSN 6150-00-820-1494
NSN 5960-00-271-1396
NSN 6130-01-557-2535
NSN 6320-01-067-0474