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 6320-00-322-3460
NSN 5950-01-608-2118
NSN 5999-01-248-6399
NSN 5990-00-357-8103
NSN 6220-00-493-5162
NSN 5910-01-221-8974
NSN 7035-01-026-1171
NSN 6650-01-537-5388
NSN 6135-00-276-7625
NSN 5996-01-087-0414
NSN 6320-01-302-5157
NSN 6320-01-312-3620