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 6150-00-985-3385
NSN 6685-01-311-3584
NSN 7035-01-564-4617
NSN 5910-00-227-7130
NSN 5935-00-591-1950
NSN 6320-01-567-9792
NSN 5935-00-280-3116
NSN 5950-00-944-7709
NSN 5960-00-490-6238
NSN 5945-00-170-5885
NSN 5998-00-815-1896
NSN 6610-01-138-4389