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 6150-00-169-8558
NSN 5930-00-528-9728
NSN 5965-01-580-8049
NSN 5999-01-020-6852
NSN 5985-01-469-3368
NSN 6610-01-444-4001
NSN 5835-01-069-2359
NSN 5975-00-450-7227
NSN 5915-01-063-7134
NSN 5935-00-942-7437
NSN 6650-01-156-6736
NSN 4140-00-600-9060