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 6650-00-751-9958
NSN 5925-00-708-8769
NSN 5945-01-118-5582
NSN 6610-01-251-8860
NSN 5930-00-883-2082
NSN 5925-01-371-3378
NSN 4140-01-483-8040
NSN 5998-01-474-0248
NSN 5990-00-968-1253
NSN 5975-01-296-1452
NSN 6650-01-514-0240
NSN 6105-01-535-5809