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 5985-01-501-6184
NSN 5975-01-224-5270
NSN 5930-00-283-9000
NSN 4140-00-064-7847
NSN 6685-00-186-9190
NSN 5985-01-147-4519
NSN 6620-00-185-1671
NSN 6220-01-474-0494
NSN 5905-00-349-7055
NSN 5996-01-421-9391
NSN 5996-01-560-1675
NSN 5999-00-925-1887