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 6620-01-468-6017
NSN 5910-01-423-8788
NSN 5950-01-461-9565
NSN 5990-00-652-2249
NSN 5998-01-029-2588
NSN 5960-00-011-4910
NSN 6320-00-116-3658
NSN 7035-00-585-2113
NSN 5930-00-278-7731
NSN 6240-01-608-3269
NSN 6240-00-646-6931
NSN 5835-01-589-4735