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 2925-00-833-9466
NSN 6240-00-364-0850
NSN 5945-00-001-3062
NSN 5990-01-424-2954
NSN 6610-00-287-6884
NSN 5950-01-470-6607
NSN 6150-01-145-5156
NSN 6610-01-534-7683
NSN 6650-01-112-0453
NSN 5996-00-827-2094
NSN 6135-00-542-6216
NSN 5910-00-655-0787