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 6610-00-281-9516
NSN 6240-01-416-7138
NSN 6150-01-609-3805
NSN 5905-01-268-1535
NSN 6240-01-456-7281
NSN 5985-00-895-1177
NSN 5960-01-174-6975
NSN 5999-01-021-8112
NSN 5895-01-024-0528
NSN 5835-01-457-7951
NSN 5910-00-923-4272
NSN 6685-01-234-3621