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 5960-00-163-6542
NSN 2925-00-404-6461
NSN 6145-01-302-6023
NSN 5855-00-631-4565
NSN 5996-01-220-3203
NSN 6130-01-515-2833
NSN 5910-00-243-1360
NSN 5835-01-056-9303
NSN 5996-01-231-2062
NSN 5895-01-017-3781
NSN 5945-00-551-0747
NSN 6220-01-003-9126