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 6135-00-985-7846
NSN 6685-01-191-1539
NSN 5895-01-583-7411
NSN 5925-01-160-7128
NSN 5965-01-420-6613
NSN 5835-01-384-3206
NSN 5960-01-068-6841
NSN 5935-01-245-7758
NSN 5920-00-281-2488
NSN 5960-00-030-5485
NSN 5998-01-578-2380
NSN 6645-01-513-4782