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 6645-01-605-8796
NSN 5950-00-197-0382
NSN 5960-00-151-7576
NSN 5965-00-147-3070
NSN 6220-00-260-9390
NSN 5965-01-015-0744
NSN 5998-01-006-7070
NSN 5985-01-414-2621
NSN 5985-00-330-8739
NSN 6145-01-582-7329
NSN 6240-01-122-7391
NSN 6650-01-533-1267