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 5930-00-246-3846
NSN 6320-01-578-6006
NSN 5835-01-549-2911
NSN 5975-01-429-7576
NSN 6105-01-573-7488
NSN 5950-01-514-0245
NSN 5855-01-508-6917
NSN 6150-01-541-1905
NSN 5920-01-277-6019
NSN 6105-01-114-4452
NSN 6645-01-142-6167
NSN 4140-00-213-9937