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 6105-01-634-0322
NSN 5945-01-365-0459
NSN 5915-00-226-5461
NSN 6150-01-488-2523
NSN 5996-00-392-7626
NSN 5920-01-459-5823
NSN 5965-01-441-9850
NSN 6150-00-960-4987
NSN 5930-01-652-1401
NSN 5925-01-237-2501
NSN 5996-01-021-8134
NSN 6645-00-327-4005