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 6610-01-553-4749
NSN 6145-01-053-7089
NSN 4140-01-323-0108
NSN 5930-01-481-0555
NSN 6685-01-549-6157
NSN 5950-01-412-2598
NSN 6320-00-925-0558
NSN 6220-01-354-3792
NSN 5895-00-568-8304
NSN 5965-00-815-2525
NSN 5895-01-507-9384
NSN 5920-01-514-8109