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 6685-00-949-4829
NSN 6620-01-535-6925
NSN 7035-00-009-8705
NSN 5920-01-513-5847
NSN 5930-01-205-6074
NSN 5920-00-541-1119
NSN 5998-01-335-0558
NSN 5960-00-617-9312
NSN 5996-01-082-7358
NSN 5925-00-636-5683
NSN 5835-01-652-4959
NSN 5930-00-337-3736