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 6220-00-078-6021
NSN 5935-01-414-8599
NSN 6220-01-055-6555
NSN 4140-00-523-2980
NSN 6645-01-154-3080
NSN 5930-01-325-3949
NSN 4140-01-223-7788
NSN 5835-01-527-2629
NSN 5985-00-373-7054
NSN 5998-01-307-4087
NSN 7035-00-803-3056
NSN 5950-01-502-0564