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 6650-00-775-6560
NSN 5960-01-091-2444
NSN 5895-01-208-1161
NSN 5915-00-491-6327
NSN 5998-01-228-1735
NSN 5945-01-419-4338
NSN 6645-01-100-3296
NSN 6620-01-380-0161
NSN 6685-01-205-1502
NSN 6240-01-276-7745
NSN 6645-00-510-6643
NSN 6650-01-058-5908