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 6130-00-377-0655
NSN 5930-01-492-6185
NSN 6145-01-377-4382
NSN 6240-01-511-9778
NSN 5999-00-269-5320
NSN 5999-01-434-9005
NSN 6105-01-308-5282
NSN 5975-01-591-7676
NSN 5960-00-553-7338
NSN 6145-01-474-1252
NSN 5930-01-598-9666
NSN 6145-01-153-7197