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 6645-00-171-9251
NSN 5915-01-377-1085
NSN 5945-00-115-3594
NSN 6135-01-180-9611
NSN 5985-00-175-4854
NSN 5999-00-003-3649
NSN 5835-01-023-0511
NSN 5960-00-287-9932
NSN 6110-00-177-3105
NSN 5990-01-386-5561
NSN 5915-00-451-5665
NSN 6685-01-364-2316