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 6650-00-889-6802
NSN 6320-00-261-9136
NSN 5975-01-457-8254
NSN 5975-01-437-6594
NSN 5930-01-025-2560
NSN 5935-01-275-6855
NSN 6145-01-100-0732
NSN 5990-01-433-3786
NSN 5960-00-597-2680
NSN 5835-01-474-1224
NSN 6650-01-506-5636
NSN 6130-01-211-0224