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 6620-00-777-3481
NSN 5950-01-579-0331
NSN 5996-00-020-6421
NSN 5960-01-025-2526
NSN 6240-00-827-0889
NSN 7035-01-300-1599
NSN 5960-01-468-4407
NSN 6220-01-552-0808
NSN 6130-01-456-8605
NSN 6220-00-195-4655
NSN 5965-01-129-8551
NSN 7035-01-026-0117