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 5915-01-249-3113
NSN 6105-00-175-9078
NSN 5975-01-441-2623
NSN 6145-00-195-5608
NSN 5915-00-256-0040
NSN 6650-01-585-5775
NSN 6240-01-102-1555
NSN 6620-01-438-0415
NSN 6685-00-116-8073
NSN 4140-00-924-8116
NSN 7035-01-016-0401
NSN 6220-01-567-7885