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 6150-00-195-1827
NSN 6320-01-497-3116
NSN 5998-00-621-1499
NSN 5990-00-419-0236
NSN 5965-00-783-8239
NSN 5985-00-956-3056
NSN 6135-01-606-8244
NSN 5930-01-634-0659
NSN 6320-01-084-8821
NSN 6620-00-086-0068
NSN 5895-00-116-3782
NSN 6105-00-292-4110