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 6150-01-370-4630
NSN 6320-00-456-2092
NSN 6130-00-131-0176
NSN 5930-01-575-1668
NSN 5915-01-382-7268
NSN 5960-01-533-2115
NSN 5999-00-170-4901
NSN 6150-00-153-3196
NSN 6130-01-507-5352
NSN 6650-00-054-4721
NSN 5910-00-031-6812
NSN 5998-00-007-7057