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 6650-00-526-7785
NSN 5990-01-024-9659
NSN 6220-00-737-0869
NSN 5910-00-939-4305
NSN 6620-01-616-9808
NSN 6610-01-592-3329
NSN 6685-01-394-2281
NSN 5960-00-114-1828
NSN 5965-01-123-3770
NSN 5935-01-428-8918
NSN 5925-00-189-4524
NSN 5999-00-098-8790