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 5960-00-975-2540
NSN 6145-01-253-0121
NSN 6620-01-303-2563
NSN 6150-00-483-3918
NSN 6220-00-794-6636
NSN 6105-01-557-1951
NSN 6610-01-502-5952
NSN 5835-01-096-8570
NSN 5855-00-361-0167
NSN 6610-01-302-1005
NSN 6620-00-763-2168
NSN 5905-01-407-3376