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 6320-00-483-0451
NSN 6145-01-282-3464
NSN 6645-00-143-1567
NSN 6240-01-525-6585
NSN 6150-01-106-6208
NSN 5996-01-512-2040
NSN 5999-00-170-9272
NSN 6110-01-380-4380
NSN 5895-01-352-5695
NSN 5945-00-176-0545
NSN 6620-01-416-1757
NSN 6650-01-181-6037