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 6150-00-525-1286
NSN 5920-01-556-7297
NSN 6150-00-217-7198
NSN 6320-01-072-2073
NSN 5935-01-152-4044
NSN 6130-01-502-8877
NSN 6130-01-570-0839
NSN 5950-01-529-6542
NSN 6110-01-013-9313
NSN 5925-01-227-9869
NSN 6685-01-125-0026
NSN 5996-01-340-8813