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 6130-00-813-6844
NSN 6150-00-099-6919
NSN 5835-01-131-2027
NSN 5990-01-423-7693
NSN 5925-01-017-4990
NSN 5965-01-231-9125
NSN 5998-01-260-8722
NSN 5945-00-679-3956
NSN 5950-01-265-0328
NSN 5960-00-275-0910
NSN 5990-00-003-0569
NSN 5975-01-531-3060