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 5935-00-060-6785
NSN 5905-01-169-2632
NSN 6145-00-202-8570
NSN 5920-00-232-3951
NSN 6645-00-592-9596
NSN 5990-01-562-4521
NSN 5960-00-225-6731
NSN 5910-00-585-0361
NSN 5895-01-565-3043
NSN 5965-00-256-8687
NSN 5915-00-832-6024
NSN 6320-00-004-9158