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 6240-01-563-8145
NSN 6645-01-185-7684
NSN 5990-00-932-3070
NSN 6610-01-418-5787
NSN 5999-00-355-8034
NSN 6145-01-613-1046
NSN 6135-01-235-4168
NSN 6685-00-196-5592
NSN 5895-01-621-4187
NSN 6650-01-120-6231
NSN 5985-00-565-0347
NSN 5965-01-322-8136