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 5925-00-155-2587
NSN 6620-01-291-8821
NSN 5855-01-173-0808
NSN 6145-01-386-6286
NSN 5990-01-478-8638
NSN 6685-01-352-5665
NSN 5905-00-823-7796
NSN 5910-01-129-9311
NSN 5998-01-307-5494
NSN 5999-01-205-4017
NSN 5910-01-495-0619
NSN 6150-00-116-3481