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 6105-00-719-6595
NSN 5935-01-400-5949
NSN 5950-01-045-3441
NSN 6685-01-068-4446
NSN 5925-01-135-9391
NSN 5960-01-070-3655
NSN 5905-01-364-6876
NSN 2925-01-025-0082
NSN 6105-00-923-6809
NSN 5975-00-082-0894
NSN 5999-00-876-7900
NSN 5945-00-881-0233