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 6320-00-450-7014
NSN 5999-01-285-6049
NSN 5930-00-275-0466
NSN 5998-01-322-8328
NSN 5975-01-236-0930
NSN 6145-01-288-2154
NSN 5985-00-428-7360
NSN 6130-00-557-3913
NSN 6135-01-264-1311
NSN 5998-01-625-0726
NSN 5990-00-343-4465
NSN 6110-01-290-5437