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 6145-00-486-3443
NSN 6145-00-358-6700
NSN 5915-00-370-0389
NSN 5960-00-860-7710
NSN 5895-01-648-2670
NSN 6320-01-578-6006
NSN 6320-01-592-6248
NSN 6620-00-127-6134
NSN 5915-01-633-5058
NSN 5999-01-297-2674
NSN 5960-00-817-5088
NSN 5998-01-306-4098