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 6240-01-423-5525
NSN 6240-01-160-7934
NSN 5945-00-542-3569
NSN 5999-01-245-3675
NSN 5975-01-573-7195
NSN 5925-01-013-9650
NSN 5835-01-050-7882
NSN 6650-01-100-3185
NSN 6620-01-226-4065
NSN 6685-00-673-9479
NSN 6320-01-478-9351
NSN 5910-01-513-8287