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 5835-01-216-7289
NSN 5965-00-055-8013
NSN 6220-01-513-5022
NSN 6320-01-162-5977
NSN 5990-00-087-3102
NSN 6220-01-597-7908
NSN 5895-00-834-2110
NSN 6105-01-497-9021
NSN 6240-01-443-0519
NSN 6220-00-420-1245
NSN 5999-01-076-9023
NSN 6150-01-385-6225