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 6145-00-683-5353
NSN 6145-01-230-9420
NSN 6240-01-528-1585
NSN 6620-00-325-4693
NSN 5945-01-217-3329
NSN 5915-00-186-9346
NSN 5996-01-154-6478
NSN 5960-00-578-8884
NSN 5835-01-541-9991
NSN 5895-00-031-3591
NSN 5920-01-391-5666
NSN 5950-01-221-9999