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 6620-00-527-6523
NSN 6240-01-197-0489
NSN 6130-01-520-7459
NSN 6135-00-470-7779
NSN 6320-01-519-0916
NSN 5910-00-059-0674
NSN 6650-01-112-0453
NSN 6620-01-157-9267
NSN 6105-01-230-1495
NSN 6240-01-513-0754
NSN 6610-00-166-0233
NSN 6685-00-625-5722