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 6110-00-455-9881
NSN 5895-01-429-0257
NSN 6645-01-351-6900
NSN 6620-01-605-9660
NSN 5905-00-401-8691
NSN 7035-01-123-8723
NSN 7035-01-333-9298
NSN 6220-01-357-1883
NSN 6685-00-575-4647
NSN 6620-00-824-4609
NSN 5996-01-512-2040
NSN 5999-01-527-6906