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 6610-00-757-9060
NSN 6105-01-015-0827
NSN 5910-01-254-2799
NSN 5998-01-272-2783
NSN 6240-01-329-4978
NSN 5930-01-496-7802
NSN 2925-01-197-7864
NSN 5945-01-143-0259
NSN 5920-01-079-6805
NSN 6610-01-381-3181
NSN 6220-01-440-8536
NSN 5990-01-257-6854