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 6130-00-655-3084
NSN 5999-00-792-0561
NSN 6610-01-379-5475
NSN 6145-00-583-9989
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5910-01-269-1218
NSN 5895-01-444-3777
NSN 6135-01-593-9256
NSN 5960-00-726-0580
NSN 5915-01-571-3925
NSN 6685-01-451-0154
NSN 6320-01-426-8947