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 6240-01-309-8888
NSN 6610-01-023-1816
NSN 7035-00-902-8995
NSN 6685-01-235-0924
NSN 6320-01-315-4185
NSN 5855-00-797-8217
NSN 5985-01-446-9725
NSN 6110-01-209-6906
NSN 5965-01-074-7306
NSN 5935-01-164-5708
NSN 6610-00-106-3401
NSN 5960-01-412-0619