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 6220-00-607-5961
NSN 2925-01-196-6187
NSN 5998-01-438-1232
NSN 5855-01-100-3272
NSN 5855-00-688-9954
NSN 5965-01-477-4938
NSN 6145-01-450-3020
NSN 5950-00-690-1713
NSN 6650-00-486-7924
NSN 5855-00-494-9581
NSN 5960-01-060-9248
NSN 5950-00-767-9279