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 6685-00-571-5597
NSN 5835-01-062-2235
NSN 5998-01-411-5920
NSN 5965-01-368-9994
NSN 5985-01-063-0138
NSN 6240-00-061-0316
NSN 6620-00-124-9515
NSN 5990-00-424-8872
NSN 5895-01-411-9604
NSN 5998-01-412-0176
NSN 6135-00-686-4777
NSN 5920-00-865-9622