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 6145-01-044-8800
NSN 5935-00-148-9378
NSN 5975-01-046-7393
NSN 6135-00-235-1938
NSN 5925-01-136-4968
NSN 6105-01-591-8022
NSN 6150-01-359-7405
NSN 6685-01-377-0519
NSN 5950-00-646-1644
NSN 5835-00-943-2763
NSN 5935-01-406-4130
NSN 5996-01-047-4518