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 6685-01-501-4901
NSN 6130-01-499-8950
NSN 6320-01-496-4605
NSN 5998-01-068-3352
NSN 5975-01-552-2441
NSN 5990-01-354-8965
NSN 5835-01-460-6054
NSN 6145-01-356-8784
NSN 6320-00-681-1324
NSN 2925-01-502-9650
NSN 6650-00-775-6560
NSN 7035-01-630-3054