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 6620-00-900-3986
NSN 6650-00-671-5106
NSN 5925-01-185-9897
NSN 5975-01-331-2370
NSN 5910-01-160-1100
NSN 6685-01-204-7125
NSN 6685-00-016-9698
NSN 5915-01-490-3321
NSN 6620-01-075-7420
NSN 5930-01-606-9576
NSN 6130-01-585-7950
NSN 6135-01-205-5965