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 6685-01-287-2700
NSN 6610-00-211-3475
NSN 6105-01-188-7292
NSN 5965-01-623-9891
NSN 5855-00-337-3679
NSN 6110-01-359-1751
NSN 5960-01-224-7151
NSN 6685-01-451-4796
NSN 6145-01-551-7902
NSN 5905-01-509-8843
NSN 5996-00-918-2004
NSN 5905-01-054-2409