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 5965-00-168-4311
NSN 6135-01-271-7151
NSN 5950-01-045-7442
NSN 5990-00-548-6163
NSN 6610-01-417-3011
NSN 6220-01-657-8560
NSN 5965-00-255-3889
NSN 5990-01-370-7912
NSN 5975-01-421-3976
NSN 6110-01-073-0088
NSN 5996-01-631-6917
NSN 5935-01-355-2502