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 6145-00-103-9848
NSN 5990-01-443-2931
NSN 5935-00-299-7149
NSN 6130-01-430-7193
NSN 5905-01-595-7667
NSN 6150-01-444-1892
NSN 5935-00-847-3966
NSN 5910-01-378-8775
NSN 5975-00-410-2017
NSN 5905-01-655-6921
NSN 6685-01-021-2180
NSN 5999-01-606-1887