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 5905-01-157-9540
NSN 5975-00-357-6136
NSN 6610-01-466-3983
NSN 5985-01-487-4053
NSN 5910-01-378-9150
NSN 5990-00-573-6067
NSN 5855-00-586-6255
NSN 5920-01-160-0057
NSN 5905-01-265-3759
NSN 6130-00-752-2584
NSN 6110-01-480-7224
NSN 6110-01-453-4266