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 6150-00-755-4852
NSN 6105-01-371-3045
NSN 5996-00-351-2369
NSN 5996-01-546-4194
NSN 5990-00-757-5262
NSN 6110-00-022-2555
NSN 6135-01-045-1504
NSN 6150-01-483-3904
NSN 5960-01-041-3048
NSN 6135-01-475-7415
NSN 5930-01-014-3643
NSN 6620-01-392-7191