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 5960-00-281-0824
NSN 6105-01-011-9435
NSN 5996-00-902-0202
NSN 6650-01-185-2544
NSN 6135-01-069-2482
NSN 6130-01-214-9934
NSN 5905-00-763-8980
NSN 5945-01-025-1163
NSN 5855-00-949-8143
NSN 5945-00-228-5838
NSN 6105-01-284-6983
NSN 5965-01-013-0290