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 6130-00-724-2516
NSN 5920-01-032-6471
NSN 5975-00-189-0857
NSN 5855-01-508-6916
NSN 6610-01-116-2527
NSN 5925-01-069-7607
NSN 6645-01-415-6093
NSN 5835-00-009-2862
NSN 5895-00-539-7237
NSN 5915-01-224-7044
NSN 5965-01-463-2815
NSN 5945-00-269-5375