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 6320-00-731-6134
NSN 5945-01-140-4330
NSN 5910-00-990-9730
NSN 5950-01-037-1685
NSN 5990-01-564-9532
NSN 5915-01-493-3231
NSN 5945-00-550-0000
NSN 5999-01-152-1149
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 6610-01-572-6625
NSN 6130-00-184-8504
NSN 5999-00-272-2175