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 5925-01-257-0455
NSN 5960-00-233-7537
NSN 6145-01-317-4108
NSN 5835-01-424-0054
NSN 7035-01-351-4111
NSN 5855-00-869-3635
NSN 5960-01-458-6484
NSN 6130-01-202-2494
NSN 5945-00-960-9849
NSN 5915-00-432-9284
NSN 6650-01-338-6042
NSN 6620-01-578-7561