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 5996-00-909-1054
NSN 6150-01-484-7879
NSN 6145-01-292-1539
NSN 6685-01-361-9258
NSN 5985-00-977-7550
NSN 5996-01-147-6054
NSN 5895-00-368-9243
NSN 6150-00-659-7123
NSN 5930-01-491-8113
NSN 5990-01-582-3671
NSN 5855-01-532-7513
NSN 5920-00-974-4381