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 5910-00-869-2806
NSN 6150-00-189-6100
NSN 6135-01-309-8414
NSN 5935-01-204-6195
NSN 5930-01-482-5915
NSN 6240-01-406-5345
NSN 7035-01-227-2546
NSN 6645-00-230-4396
NSN 5960-00-254-4271
NSN 5930-00-236-2238
NSN 5999-00-425-4084
NSN 5910-01-236-5556