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 5895-00-944-2453
NSN 6145-01-388-9661
NSN 6240-00-227-0135
NSN 6130-01-425-7275
NSN 6320-01-607-1491
NSN 5930-01-256-7016
NSN 5910-01-333-8828
NSN 6130-01-541-4634
NSN 5945-00-196-1404
NSN 5990-00-583-9920
NSN 5920-01-609-7048
NSN 5965-00-815-2525