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 6650-00-891-9850
NSN 5855-01-244-4978
NSN 5895-01-375-7840
NSN 6145-01-225-6650
NSN 5930-01-385-9380
NSN 5945-01-332-3274
NSN 6150-01-449-1339
NSN 6240-00-569-5854
NSN 5965-00-147-3070
NSN 5965-01-495-6455
NSN 5990-00-811-3275
NSN 5835-00-632-8621