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 6220-00-320-5556
NSN 6110-00-006-6381
NSN 5990-01-481-3080
NSN 5998-01-044-0521
NSN 6150-01-493-5550
NSN 5910-01-105-0721
NSN 6240-01-503-5404
NSN 5950-00-470-2392
NSN 5960-00-691-6382
NSN 5905-01-422-8027
NSN 6685-01-188-5940
NSN 6130-01-047-7470