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 6145-00-466-4068
NSN 5950-01-025-9757
NSN 5999-01-577-5342
NSN 6150-01-579-8360
NSN 5910-01-265-0816
NSN 5905-00-807-0181
NSN 6145-01-580-5260
NSN 5998-01-278-8959
NSN 6150-01-532-9366
NSN 5996-01-369-9209
NSN 5920-01-600-3396
NSN 5935-00-196-7256