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 5835-01-615-8864
NSN 6620-01-560-4497
NSN 5835-01-048-8106
NSN 5835-01-281-7281
NSN 6135-01-305-6958
NSN 5998-00-292-4954
NSN 5855-01-656-6808
NSN 6220-01-187-7119
NSN 5835-01-047-6697
NSN 5999-01-110-8932
NSN 5960-01-254-3541
NSN 6320-01-006-6138